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From: Steph <stbya@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something!
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:14:50 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c99ef94-a928-4249-afa1-987e0e47597e@n32g2000pre.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ih3kd8$k1p$1@panix2.panix.com

On Jan 18, 3:52 am, dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:

> So, what might I have done wrong?

If emacs didn't start in a new window, the first thing *I* would check
is your DISPLAY environment variable:

echo $DISPLAY

Without it, Emacs will start in tty mode even if you compiled with X
support.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-20 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-18  8:52 just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something! David Combs
2011-01-18 17:16 ` rusi
2011-01-18 17:30   ` rusi
2011-01-18 18:12 ` Jason Earl
2011-01-18 19:36   ` David Combs
2011-01-18 21:12 ` Tim X
2011-01-21  1:40   ` David Combs
2011-01-21  7:44     ` Tim X
2011-01-20  5:47 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-01-20  6:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-21  1:45   ` David Combs
2011-01-20 15:14 ` Steph [this message]

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