From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something! Date: 18 Jan 2011 03:52:56 -0500 Organization: PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295400206 22690 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2011 01:23:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:23:26 +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 Jan 19 02:23:22 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PfMld-0003WH-70 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:23:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48435 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfMlc-00015S-DJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:23:20 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1295340776 1033 166.84.1.2 (18 Jan 2011 08:52:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:52:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184361 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:19:39 -0500 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:78567 Archived-At: Just made an emacs (23.1) on Solaris 10 sparc. Was using gnome when I did it. ./configure ... ... --with-gif=no ... Now, I thought that the use for libgif (or giflib?) was so that you could show *photographs*, things like that. (I used the with-gif=no because, on comp.unix.solaris, that was how I was told to do the configure.) Anyway, that and the make (gmake) worked ok. And when I actually ran the newly-built emacs (in ../src/), hooray!, I finally had an emacs on this otherwise naked machine. But it sure didn't look like the ntemacs I'm running on xp, with the large fancy colorful "script" EMACS it showed on starting up. No such luck. What I got was like 30 years ago emacs running on an ADM-3a or vt-100: took no advantage of the gnome gui it was running under. Question: could that "no gif" do that? (I hope not!) So, what might I have done wrong? --- I was executing it from terminal-window's tcsh command-line, rather than by clicking an icon. SURELY that has nothing to do with it -- but do tell me if I'm wrong. Thanks for any advice! David