From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alberto Luaces Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting gnu emacs to run in gui mode Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:16:16 +0100 Message-ID: <877gye53qn.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332346601 9431 80.91.229.3 (21 Mar 2012 16:16:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:16:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 21 17:16:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SAODH-0006J4-5a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:16:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAODG-00036n-6u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46879) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAODA-00036Z-UE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:16:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAOD9-0000Nb-0k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:16:32 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33427) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAOD8-0000NF-Pn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SAOD5-0006BH-PZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:16:27 +0100 Original-Received: from pcmecanismos.eps.cdf.udc.es ([193.144.52.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:16:27 +0100 Original-Received: from aluaces by pcmecanismos.eps.cdf.udc.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:16:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pcmecanismos.eps.cdf.udc.es User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BtoIkhnK00Aum2fzoG+MbSaY37s= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84072 Archived-At: Kevin Patrick Barry writes: > Dear List, > > I apologise in advance if there is an established solution to this > problem out there; an hour or so with manuals/google hasn't turned > anything up. > > I have installed gnu emacs 23.4 on my linux system (Lubuntu), and I > can run it just fine from my terminal, but I can't get it to load in > gui mode.  Emacs has appeared in my desktop menus but clicking it > does nothing (no error messages, nothing at all, even though the > command is fine if I do it manually in the terminal).  Clicking 'run' > and typing Emacs also gets nothing.  I scoured the manual for an > option > to force gui mode but there doesn't appear to be one, just an opposite > for forcing terminal mode (-nw). > > Perhaps this has something to do with the LXDE desktop environment?  > (Googling various combinations of this and Lubuntu didn't turn > anything up.)  Or perhaps I installed it from the wrong file?  I used > the > file `emacs-23.4.tar.gz' from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/. > > I'm sure it would work if I installed it from the package manager, but > I'm doing this as something of an educational exercise in installing > applications manually.  Therefore it isn't urgent, but any help > would be much appreciated. Look at the configuration stage when you compiled emacs. Maybe you had not installed the graphics toolkit development packages (i.e. gtk) and therefore emacs was built in terminal mode only. -- Alberto