Re: Compiling Emacs: configure --with-x-toolkit=KIT

Re: Compiling Emacs: configure --with-x-toolkit=KIT

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Hume <David.Hume@hushmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:38:26 +0100
> 
> I compiled and installed emacs from the source 24.3. But I appear to
> have created the GTK version and not the X11 version. Is there some
> other source which will produce emacs-x11? I tried
> 
> --with-x-toolkit=yes
> 
> but although that produced a different binary it's still the GTK
> version.

Try

  --with-x-toolkit=lucid

Re: Compiling Emacs: configure --with-x-toolkit=KIT

[Javier]

>>> I compiled and installed emacs from the source 24.3. But I appear to
>>> have created the GTK version and not the X11 version. Is there some
>>> other source which will produce emacs-x11? I tried

Do you mean the old-fashioned athena toolkit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xaw

From ./configure --help:
--with-x-toolkit=KIT    use an X toolkit (KIT one of: yes or gtk, gtk2,
                        gtk3, lucid or athena, motif, no)

The choices are gtk, lucid (same as Qt), athena and motif.

Try this

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
--localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=athena \
--without-gconf --without-gsettings
make
make install

If it does not work try --without-xft in the configure line.

Does it compile? does it look all right?  I have never tried to put
that look into emacs, but I confess that I like the minimalistic look
of the old athena X11 applications like xterm, xfig.

Re: Compiling Emacs: configure --with-x-toolkit=KIT

[Stefan Monnier]

> Yes that's it, it worked.  Thanks! I didn't know it was called athena, I
> just thought it was how x11 was supposed to look.  I had tried
> --with-x-toolkit=athena before but not with those other options so it
> didn't seem to do anything.

--with-x-toolkit=athena is the same as --with-x-toolkit=lucid.
--without-gconf --without-gsettings will simply prevent Emacs from
inheriting your desktop's defaults (e.g. background and foreground
colors).


        Stefan

Re: Compiling Emacs: configure --with-x-toolkit=KIT

[Óscar Fuentes]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> --with-x-toolkit=athena is the same as --with-x-toolkit=lucid.
> --without-gconf --without-gsettings will simply prevent Emacs from
> inheriting your desktop's defaults (e.g. background and foreground
> colors).

I guess that "inheriting your desktop's defaults" only works for Gnome,
right?

That would explain why I don't need those --without-g* on my build
script.

Re: Compiling Emacs: configure --with-x-toolkit=KIT

[Jai Dayal]

Whoa, hold on here, we must discuss the drawbacks of lucid here otherwise
we'll have people running around being upset.


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> > --with-x-toolkit=athena is the same as --with-x-toolkit=lucid.
> > --without-gconf --without-gsettings will simply prevent Emacs from
> > inheriting your desktop's defaults (e.g. background and foreground
> > colors).
>
> I guess that "inheriting your desktop's defaults" only works for Gnome,
> right?
>
> That would explain why I don't need those --without-g* on my build
> script.
>
>
>