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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Help!  Gnuemacs 18.55 not working with X11
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Date: 26 Oct 89 14:17:11 GMT
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In article <857@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> philf@xymox.metaphor.com (Phil Fernandez) writes:
>I am compiling with the HAVEd_X_WINDOWS, X11, and HAVE_X_MENU options
>set in config.h.  The resulting emacs binary runs and works fine in
>general.  Under X, it creates a window properly.  However, I have
>several problems:
>
>  Emacs under X fails to recognize mouse events.  Mouse events just
>  cause a beep.  No cursor positioning, no menus, etc.
>
>  The "-i" option -- use bitmap icon -- works if specified, but
>  doesn't get processed correctly on the command line.  When I 
>  start emacs with the -i option, I get the message "Wrong type
>  argument:  stringp,nil".  It seems to not realize that the -i is an
>  X-specific argument.

We've had almost exactly the same problems getting emacs to work with
X on our Pyramids.  It works fine on our Sun 4's, but I don't know
whether that's because we're running an older version on the Suns.

>Please mail responses directly to me.

Could you post instead (or CC: me in your response)?  Thanks.

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