From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Diepenmaat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting emacs to use GUI mode Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:40:03 +0200 Organization: Zeekat Softwareonwikkeling Message-ID: <87iquyc14s.fsf@zeekat.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216680144 23576 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 22:42:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:42:24 +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 Jul 22 00:43:12 2008 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 4.50) id 1KL45z-0001sZ-OQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:43:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51276 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL456-0001dS-KA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:42:12 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!transit1.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABgAAAAwBAMAAAD5pqeQAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAABhQTFRF URgKoyIAmTMXqF5KuYl7y6ui4NDM+/r4zJNdmwAAAAFiS0dEAIgFHUgAAAAJcEhZcwAACxMAAAsT AQCanBgAAAAHdElNRQfXDBIUAgGiEa2aAAABYUlEQVQoz02SvXaDMAyF3aHdZegD2PxkJhQ8J4R6 juGUuZDUe43R61eGJA0D8B1dXV0LGCJaDDePyOjZBtT9MgSYbIu+UpNl2A+/ukPXfNUku2ROdWhM 99myqzWX3Czp8dhY1n+MfWau+X4fZGNZpecuSwpFMHOZnpskFppgEaksGs5lFoYeYilOEMkjzcGC CzjxJJoowZIAQMPhfdYEecGhBFCOwO9GKkFkXZDtfIAax2C9wwKAWzwFyPGwQrXCIkimbzAHeFtl Ts0vJHvFkRI01ssVwpyMAoHkGmfFqL+TEmSNXjHMXeiHZAjZqjOsVxxSV8UG3Fi2ZGID2Fs2t7d3 6mLTdIdUM+PuECvW/T6gfobnSqTY+DDgmrnmATSnfMiQrTvcDOikyT1OWHxZPIF8As8P/waOjzdn IGt+vRVgYD7CrakFTSfFbwAB0Y+ghWj0IjP0Scz6I2E3zIlFb/8AfR6DwKVgwNYAAAAASUVORK5C YII= Cancel-Lock: sha1:igi/duyKrM+AIoxe6r42vwt6K2w= Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.126.3.69 Original-X-Trace: 1216679985 news.xs4all.nl 49763 [::ffff:80.126.3.69]:59588 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160425 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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:55773 Archived-At: Thr4wn writes: > Is there a way to force emacs to use the X display? I read that > setting DISPLAY env var will do that, but that does not seem to work > -- its value is already set to ":0.0", but emacs still runs in CLI > mode. There also isn't any kind of error or warning, it just simply > loads in CLI mode. > > Would a greater understanding of X11 server/client system be required > to solve this problem, or am I still missing something else? > > I am using... > > Debian Etch > gnome-terminal > emacs 22.1.1 Can you start other X programs using the same terminal? If so, you may have installed the emacs22-nox package instead of the emacs22-gtk package. emacs22-nox is the version without X support. -- Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/