Re: How to force emacs to start in graphics mode?

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Wed, Jul 26 2006, Anton V. Belyaev wrote:

> I've build a CVS version of emacs

,----[ INSTALL.CVS ]
| Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
| should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
| or gnu.emacs.bug.  Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
| send it to the proper place.
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> Here is the config:
> ./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk --with-xft=yes
> --prefix=/home/anton/local/
>
> But when I'm trying to run ~/local/bin/emacs it starts in text mode in
> the console.
>
> Is there any way to force emacs use graphics mode?
> Or to find out what it lacks to use graphics?

Look at the configure output.  My crystal ball says that it couldn't
locate the X11 (and GTK?) development libraries and therefore your
emacs was compiled without X11 support.

,----[ INSTALL ]
| * GNU/Linux development packages
| 
| Many GNU/Linux systems do not come with development packages by
| default; they just include the files that you need to run Emacs, but
| not those you need to compile it.  For example, to compile Emacs with
| X11 support, you may need to install the special `X11 development'
| package.  For example, in April 2003, the package names to install
| were `XFree86-devel' and `Xaw3d-devel' on RedHat.  On Debian, the
| packages necessary to build the installed version should be
| sufficient; they can be installed using `apt-get build-dep emacs21' in
| Debian 3 and above.
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Bye, Reiner.
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