Re: emacs-22.1 under kubuntu 6.06

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 12.08.2007 um 03:47 schrieb Giorgos Keramidas:

> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:46:50 -0700, stephan.zimmer wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I just downloaded emacs-22.1 and build it (by hand) under kubuntu
>> 6.06. Everything works fine, except that the menus of emacs look  
>> quite
>> ugly (like the menus of application using a very old X-version);
>> furhtermore the menubar has a black background color. Does anyone  
>> know
>> how to avoid this?
>
> You have probably built Emacs without Lucid widgets.  Emacs 22 can  
> build
> with GTK+ widgets too, but you will have to run the `configure' script
> with the option `--with-gtk' or with the option `--with-x- 
> toolkit=gtk'.
>

According to my experience GTK+ is now preferred over Athena/Lucid or  
Motif. It's just necessary that all the necessary development  
packages are installed, which is not the regular case in Linux.  
Configure's output shows when it fails, and config.log will explain why.

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   Pete

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