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From: philf@xymox.metaphor.com (Phil Fernandez)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Help!  Gnuemacs 18.55 not working with X11
Message-ID: <858@metaphor.Metaphor.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 89 19:24:56 GMT
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Reply-To: philf@xymox.metaphor.com (Phil Fernandez)
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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I am trying to use gnuemacs with X11, but am having troubles making it
work correctly as an X application.

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.

Can anyone give me a clue about what's going wrong?  I'm running
gnuemacs 18.55 (had same problems with 18.53), compiled and installed
on a Sun 3/50 running 3.5 (same problems on 3/80 running 4.0.3).  The
Suns are running X11.3 from the MIT distribution.  Otherwise, the X
environment works fine.

Please mail responses directly to me.

phil

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| Phil Fernandez              |             philf@metaphor.com               |
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| Metaphor Computer Systems   |"Does the body rule the mind, or does the mind|
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+-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| Phil Fernandez              |             philf@metaphor.com               |
|                             |     ...!{apple|decwrl}!metaphor!philf        |
| Metaphor Computer Systems   |"Does the body rule the mind, or does the mind|
| Mountain View, CA           | rule the body?  I dunno..." - Morrissey      |
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