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bug#40762: UI screws up Ubuntu 18.04
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#40762: UI screws up Ubuntu 18.04 |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:48:35 +0300 |
> From: Robert Pearson <r.pearson@ieee.org>
> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 04:01:50 -0400
>
> No trouble downloading and installing. Then I started emacs and tried to go
> through the tutorial. The User
> Interface is so outdated that it screwed up my keyboard for emacs and all
> other programs. The UI makes
> emacs useless.
Did you start Emacs in text mode? Otherwise, I cannot understand how
could it screw up your keyboard.
> (I believe the problem with GNU emacs is curses and could be fixed by going
> to the 21st century for the UI.)
Emacs should use ncurses for the text-mode frames, but the default is
to start a GUI frame, where curses is not relevant at all.
So I don't think I understand the nature of your problems.
Thanks.