Re: [SOLVED] Re: GNU emacs on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>]

Alexandre Oberlin <alxobr@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 3:03:26 PM UTC+2, Dan Espen wrote:
>> Looks like you are running Emacs in a terminal.
> Yes, you are right, X was unavailable because of this:
> With the coming 14.04 release sux (wrapper around su which will
> transfer your X credentials) is no longer included in Ubuntu. (I think
> it is being removed because it is being pulled from Debian, because of
> no maintenance of the original code.)
> source
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/428284/what-is-a-good-alternative-to-the-sux-command
> where an alternative to using the obsoleted sux is given.
> The problem is then solved, thanks.

For a while, I was stuck running Emacs in a terminal.
I usually use rxvt.
In a couple of cases, I modified the source to get unique escape
sequences for odd key combinations.

Now I run under X which is a more sane way to go.

-- 
Dan Espen