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: Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something! Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:40:31 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <871v49x6f6.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295577658 11246 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2011 02:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:40:58 +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 Jan 21 03:40:51 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 1Pg6vj-0007fS-Aw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:40:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43350 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pg6vi-0000GL-NA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:40:50 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 72 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1295574031 1212 166.84.1.2 (21 Jan 2011 01:40:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:40:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184458 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:78618 Archived-At: In article <871v49x6f6.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au>, Tim X wrote: >dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes: > >> 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. >> >> > >Not sure why you have been told not to include gif support, but it >should have nothing to do with the issues you have observed. > >Sounds like you did a non-X build. Look at the output from configure and >make sure it includes X and an appropriate GUI lib such as gtk+ (given >your running gnome) or one of the older X gui libs. > >Note also that the fancy 'Emacs' coloured startup screen may not appear >if you don't have the appropriate fonts or have set a font that prevents >emacs from drawing that flashier initial screen. In this case, yhou will >just get a very plain startup screen that looks very similar to the one >for non-GUI versions. > >The output from configure is the first place to look when tyring to >determine why a newly compiled emacs isn't looking right. Pay particular >attention to the font related stuff as you want anti-aliased fonts and >that an appropriate X library is being included. > >BTW, isn't the latest released 23 version 23.2? Probably should be >building that version rather than one with known bugs. > >Tim > >-- >tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au Maybe, but it's sure gotta be better than 21 or even 22, yes? David