From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: suvayu ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting gnu emacs to run in gui mode Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:40:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332358840 15439 80.91.229.3 (21 Mar 2012 19:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Kevin Patrick Barry Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 21 20:40:38 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 1SAROf-0003Vp-Kf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:40:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAROf-0003s4-0x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:40:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57303) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAROa-0003re-C7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:40:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAROY-0002tZ-Aq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:41457) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAROY-0002tN-3W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:40:30 -0400 Original-Received: by obbta14 with SMTP id ta14so1092949obb.0 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:40:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=VpzqRzUM6oN83ZleWARf1COJa2m9i3zTsGm1Xx+3XMg=; b=EmHhtMjGx5hsYzQnk30nnOX56d8QvvkILWK3cZguwFWidE8Ei/V8G1sRgW4vRqOBZW XaoQUHm0/Cj9sMPEAYPNoo6wEPZv3yekFc5Drknrb/6wgBLFuOeMIIKkyWuN3EbD5xAb CLF4gmsPtZ58kk8ei+5jIee7zZJRaSxQnASb0jYXNaINpl0E5ncK4YOXEyZtPE805Idg Pvs5tatuHHWjH6oyJ6pDq2ZUzD3Pn8Ka1y4cuGI94bl+0327CF9DtwTHmmoIIKzClEft tkq+MpG1jweLqtu+2MuZLQK8euRQoEOW5WTitK+ofY2956JzFTOtuYrQ2ZrgCCma7aG7 E3cw== Original-Received: by 10.182.202.68 with SMTP id kg4mr3455173obc.42.1332358827378; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:40:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.60.20.104 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:40:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6VtDbNonff8jvh33OJk-hL4aoVY X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.214.169 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:84077 Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 13:45, Kevin Patrick Barry wrote: > I have installed gnu emacs 23.4 on my linux system (Lubuntu), and I can r= un > 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 i= t > manually in the terminal).=C2=A0 Clicking 'run' and typing Emacs also get= s > nothing.=C2=A0 I scoured the manual for an option to force gui mode but t= here > doesn't appear to be one, just an opposite for forcing terminal mode (-nw= ). > You don't say the exact emacs package names you installed (I'm assuming you did not compile it yourself as you didn't say so), but I have a hunch you only have the emacs-nox package installed. Try installing the full feature emacs pacakge (its probably named simply emacs or emacs23)[1]. So something like this should work: $ sudo apt-get install emacs23 [1] --=20 Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.