Re: GNU NTEmacs and X

[Jason Dufair <jase@dufair.org>]

So you want to run it always in GUI mode, with X handling the GUI when
you're in X/KDE and Win32 handling the GUI when you don't have an X
server running?  I think you'll be unlikely to get this to work with the
current sources.

I suggest you use Cygwin's Emacs.  If you're "out of KDE," you could
have an X server running rootless that allows Emacs to run and appear to
be a regular Windows app (this is how I run it all the time and the
context in which I'm composing this post currently).  If you feel the
need to run in KDE, you're still covered.

"FRC" <frc--NoSpAm--@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to make GNU NTEmacs (21.3/winXP pro) use X (xfree86/cygwin,
> latest) ?
> I'm using a binary distro (followed links from gnu.org), compiled with
> MSVC++ I suppose. I would like to be able to build it myself, but apparently
> there are some makefile issues with cygwin.
> Cygwin now provides an emacs package (cygwin port) that can use X, but I'd
> rather have the choice to run it outside of cygwin.
> My goal is to have only one Emacs install on my machine, use it under X most
> of the time (with KDE/xfree86/cygwin) BUT also be able to run Emacs without
> X (and not in a cmd.exe...) when I got to get out of KDE (eg. when I've to
> work with many windows programs and switch between them very frequently -
> there's then no point in having emacs in a fullscreen KDE).
>
> Any suggestion? (hope this is not too much OT)
>
> FRC
>
>

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