From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: GNU emacs on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:15:49 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443719787 19620 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2015 17:16:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 17:16:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 19:16:27 2015 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 1ZhhT1-00082D-AK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:16:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53842 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhhT0-0006EY-QM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:16:26 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="48ddaff5c9d3fd7512a0d6243d6519a4"; logging-data="26537"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+s9OTwsClhy4P8ZCgnPBiEatpdySw9vO0=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ris/CfKZ6hPQPnxHAV1agFfb/cY= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:215141 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:107427 Archived-At: Alexandre Oberlin 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