From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to find out if emacs is running inside GUI or terminal Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:26:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385162851 23865 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2013 23:27:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:27:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 23 00:27:33 2013 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 1Vk08L-0001Gq-Fb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:27:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41525 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vk08K-0002L5-W1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35445) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vk084-0002Jv-OK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:27:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vk07x-0004pU-Eu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:27:16 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vk07x-0004pP-7B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:27:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vk07u-0000yd-Tw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:27:06 +0100 Original-Received: from 206-248-165-141.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.165.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:27:06 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-165-141.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:27:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-165-141.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sCsDjhhsGQ9xA4XZ0AKWpTekF2A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:94576 Archived-At: > Is there a way to find out within emacs if it is running in a GUI or inside > a terminal (i.e. -nw switch specified on the cli) using Elisp? Note that a single Emacs can run both with GUI frames and with terminal frames at the same time. E.g. you can start "emacs -nw" and then from there you can M-x make-frame-on-display RET to open GUI frames. Or you can run Emacs in "GUI mode", then do M-x server-mode RET, and then use "emacsclient -t" from a terminal to open a terminal frame. Stefan