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Re: Latest Emacs is on one system not graphical
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: Latest Emacs is on one system not graphical |
Date: |
Sat, 09 May 2009 01:43:47 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) |
Decebal <CLDWesterhof@gmail.com> writes:
> On 8 mei, 22:40, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote:
>> Decebal <CLDWester...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > I build Emacs on two different systems. On the first system it works
>> > okay, but on the second one Emacs became terminal based. When
>> > installing the version made on the first system on the second system
>> > Emacs is a graphical version. What is happening here?
>>
>> Sometimes, for some strange reason, distributions compile and install
>> non graphic emacs.
>>
>> Either you'll find a way to configure your distribution to provide a X
>> emacs, or just download the sources yourself, and compile them with X
>> enabled. It takes less than 5 minutes.
>
> That is what I did. (Took more then 5 minutes.) But on the first
> system it was compiled as a graphical Emacs and on the other as a non-
> graphical. In both cases I did:
> ./configure
> make
Then check configure output. On one system it doesn't find the X
libraries. Check if they're installed, find where, and add options
to configure, such as:
--x-includes=DIR X include files are in DIR
--x-libraries=DIR X library files are in DIR
(other options may be needed, try: ./configure --help).
>> There are defaults stored in various places. One is ~/.Xresources,
>
> Is not there.
Probably a hint that X is not installed. But anyways, I prefer to
configure things in ~/.emacs. The difference is that emacs takes the
parameters from X before opening the first frame, so it's directly
created with the right parameters. It processes ~/.emacs later, and
you may see the frame change from the compiled-in defaults to the
parameters you set in ~/.emacs at start-up. Not important, just an
esthetic thing.
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__Pascal Bourguignon__