Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>>> I just tried that, and it works for me. Are you running Emacs
>>> from a terminal emulator?
>>
>> I'm running emacs in X.
>
> Yeah, but you can run it in a GUI window, and then a titlebar,
> menus, etc. are provided by your window manager (WM). The window
> manager is not X, it is yet another layer on top of it. In GNOME,
> the WM is often Metacity. I sometimes use Openbox. But there are
> many. If you type 'emacs', even in a terminal, nowadays this is
> what you get.
>
> If the Meta key doesn't work in the above case, I have no idea
> why.

Sorry, the emulator in use when I run emacs in X is xterm-261

> But, if you type 'emacs -nw' (for "no window", likely) Emacs runs
> within the terminal. You don't even need a WM to do that. It is
> only in this case my two suggestions might work and, again, only
> for xterm and urxvt. (In GNOME, at least when I used it, the
> default terminal was "Gnome Terminal", which is slower.)

I only ever use the various WM 'terminals' until I get xterm setup the
way I like it.... so that is not involved.

I always use xterm since it has more options that I know and
understand. Far as I know, the rest of the wannabee wm terminals are
all lessor copies of xterm.
(Many thanks to Thomas Dickey's long standing and expert efforts)

> I don't know how portable all the stuff I mention is, but if
> there's X, anything with an "x" in it should work, as should
> .Xresources and .xinit.

To be clear... the Meta key has worked as ALT does on linux right from
the start.... I just caught it after my OP on this subject, and posted
that I'd 'discovered' a sort of solution.

Its still kind of a pita just because of long habit on the ALT key in
emacs. But much handier than ESC

I still haven't tried your suggestion in .Xdefaults... but will soon.

If I'm not mistaken gnome references .xresources... so I keep
.xresources symlinked to .Xdefaults and have for yrs.  

Just for the information, I'm working the solaris (openindiana) only
intermittently as a vm guest on win7 64bit.  So trying things may
happen rather slowly.