From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something! Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:12:29 +1100 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <871v49x6f6.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295386849 13732 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2011 21:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:40:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 18 22:40:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PfJIA-0001nw-4Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:40:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37922 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfJI9-0007cB-KC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hcA0y9Fjys6XKIJDSSi6Z9tmio0= Original-Lines: 63 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 918e9891.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=2GFXA>WhZ^Q[3>fhUe^HC[L?0kYOcDh@ZN7:H2`MmAUSF8TiH9LRjfQ]G; 2>V^?kWS48NP]Hm4n:Y[b[7UeZ^KMYA6=4C3; List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78556 Archived-At: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes: > Just made an emacs (23.1) on Solaris 10 sparc. Was > using gnome when I did it. > > ./configure ... ... --with-gif=no ... > > Now, I thought that the use for libgif (or giflib?) was > so that you could show *photographs*, things like that. > > (I used the with-gif=no because, on comp.unix.solaris, that was > how I was told to do the configure.) > > Anyway, that and the make (gmake) worked ok. > > And when I actually ran the newly-built emacs (in ../src/), > hooray!, I finally had an emacs on this otherwise naked machine. > > But it sure didn't look like the ntemacs I'm running on xp, > with the large fancy colorful "script" EMACS it showed on > starting up. > > No such luck. What I got was like 30 years ago emacs running > on an ADM-3a or vt-100: took no advantage of the gnome gui > it was running under. > > Question: could that "no gif" do that? (I hope not!) > > So, what might I have done wrong? > > --- > > I was executing it from terminal-window's tcsh command-line, > rather than by clicking an icon. SURELY that has nothing > to do with it -- but do tell me if I'm wrong. > > Not sure why you have been told not to include gif support, but it should have nothing to do with the issues you have observed. Sounds like you did a non-X build. Look at the output from configure and make sure it includes X and an appropriate GUI lib such as gtk+ (given your running gnome) or one of the older X gui libs. Note also that the fancy 'Emacs' coloured startup screen may not appear if you don't have the appropriate fonts or have set a font that prevents emacs from drawing that flashier initial screen. In this case, yhou will just get a very plain startup screen that looks very similar to the one for non-GUI versions. The output from configure is the first place to look when tyring to determine why a newly compiled emacs isn't looking right. Pay particular attention to the font related stuff as you want anti-aliased fonts and that an appropriate X library is being included. BTW, isn't the latest released 23 version 23.2? Probably should be building that version rather than one with known bugs. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au