How to force emacs to start in graphics mode?

How to force emacs to start in graphics mode?

[Anton V. Belyaev]

I've build a CVS version of emacs

Here is the config:
./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk --with-xft=yes
--prefix=/home/anton/local/

But when I'm trying to run ~/local/bin/emacs it starts in text mode in
the console.

Is there any way to force emacs use graphics mode?
Or to find out what it lacks to use graphics?

Re: How to force emacs to start in graphics mode?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.07.2006 um 22:07 schrieb Anton V. Belyaev:

> But when I'm trying to run ~/local/bin/emacs it starts in text mode in
> the console.
>
> Is there any way to force emacs use graphics mode?

Could you launch X11 and set the DISPLAY environment variable in the  
shell from which you try to launch GNU Emacs? Alternatively you can  
tell GNU Emacs via -d a particular display to show up.

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Re: How to force emacs to start in graphics mode?

[Anton V. Belyaev]

I dont think it is really needed:

the old emacs 21, which resides at usr/bin, starts from the
same console in graphics mode.

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 26.07.2006 um 22:07 schrieb Anton V. Belyaev:
>
> > But when I'm trying to run ~/local/bin/emacs it starts in text mode in
> > the console.
> >
> > Is there any way to force emacs use graphics mode?
>
> Could you launch X11 and set the DISPLAY environment variable in the
> shell from which you try to launch GNU Emacs? Alternatively you can
> tell GNU Emacs via -d a particular display to show up.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>
> There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does
> not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
>                                             -- Robert Heinlein

Re: How to force emacs to start in graphics mode?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 27.07.2006 um 07:49 schrieb Anton V. Belyaev:

> the old emacs 21, which resides at usr/bin, starts from the
> same console in graphics mode.

Then you should check which libraries both emacs executables are  
using (nm can do that). It might be easier to check the output from  
the configure step whether X11 could be determined at all. (Therefore  
*I* am configuring in a shell inside GNU Emacs.)

Since you mentioned in your first eMail that you were compiling with  
GTK you should watch what your CPU is doing: there are GTK  
applications that use fontconfig, for example an xterm. Such an  
application can decide that it's not the right moment now to become  
visible and starts to rebuild fonts cache files -- it can take many  
minutes, 15 or 20 or 30 ...

The next is the use of the xft interface -- I think it's  
experimental, and so this list is not the right one to discuss  
problems with it. Somewhere inside this distribution you'll find some  
hints which list is right, hopefully.

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Re: How to force emacs to start in graphics mode?

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Jul 26 2006, Anton V. Belyaev wrote:

> I've build a CVS version of emacs

,----[ INSTALL.CVS ]
| Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
| should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
| or gnu.emacs.bug.  Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
| send it to the proper place.
`----

> Here is the config:
> ./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk --with-xft=yes
> --prefix=/home/anton/local/
>
> But when I'm trying to run ~/local/bin/emacs it starts in text mode in
> the console.
>
> Is there any way to force emacs use graphics mode?
> Or to find out what it lacks to use graphics?

Look at the configure output.  My crystal ball says that it couldn't
locate the X11 (and GTK?) development libraries and therefore your
emacs was compiled without X11 support.

,----[ INSTALL ]
| * GNU/Linux development packages
| 
| Many GNU/Linux systems do not come with development packages by
| default; they just include the files that you need to run Emacs, but
| not those you need to compile it.  For example, to compile Emacs with
| X11 support, you may need to install the special `X11 development'
| package.  For example, in April 2003, the package names to install
| were `XFree86-devel' and `Xaw3d-devel' on RedHat.  On Debian, the
| packages necessary to build the installed version should be
| sufficient; they can be installed using `apt-get build-dep emacs21' in
| Debian 3 and above.
`----

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