From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard G Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting emacs to use GUI mode Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:13:35 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87iquyc14s.fsf@zeekat.nl> <33289281-88df-47c0-addd-c48286dcc800@o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <87k5fa5rga.fsf@zeekat.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216978957 758 80.91.229.12 (25 Jul 2008 09:42:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:42:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 25 11:43:26 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 1KMJpW-0002VT-Qt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:43:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38246 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMJoc-0004mr-Os for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:42:22 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feeder.news-service.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX19Yg5gaxvjF1e5j1MzSiMg/fNLF7EypJyFS/miEN0ubGqw7/V0kcCX5w4U9pDp6pVX048leHmvzyIrhYCaem3acVgz47Z2pVU7jrExoDN+sp+xM4BB4RoGxE5YZst28elZx1S1KNaYx5g== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:13:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+0VWhoETZHYW0R25MNEupTnzVhdlaW01Bh5oT3B2n3lw== Cancel-Lock: sha1:LtxUBMFGdHhXmGDqVAO9BGt7oXw= User-Agent: Emacs 22.2.1/No Gnus v0.11 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160583 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:55929 Archived-At: Joost Diepenmaat writes: > Thr4wn writes: > >> On Jul 21, 6:40 pm, Joost Diepenmaat wrote: >>> 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. >> >> I am able to start any x program (like iceweasel) from that psuedo- >> terminal. Is there some way to determine if I have the nox version? > > Since you're on debian, try: > > dpkg-query -s emacs22-nox > > and > > dpkg-query -s emacs22-gtk > > The Status: output line of those commands should contain "installed" > for the package that's currently installed (only one of them may be > installed at the same time). > > Alternatively, you can try to install emacs22-gtk, which will replace > the emacs22-nox package if that's currently installed: > > apt-get update > apt-get install emacs22-gtk > > J. Another thing to consider is the alternatives facility in Debian. Try ls -l /etc/alternatives/emacs And then look up update-alternatives. e.g. You might do this: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display emacs