ian@armada.UUCP (Ian L. Kaplan) (05/21/89)
Has anyone out there gotten Emacs to run reliably under DEC's X11
with the DECwindows window manager?
I am the using DECwindows window manager (which itself runs under
X11) on a VAXstation 3/GPX running ULTRIX. I have been having
problems with Emacs version 18.50 and 18.53, built for X11 (e.g.,
built with the HAVE_X_WINDOWS and X11 flags defined). While building
Emacs 18.53 we had to define the SYSTEM_MALLOC flag in config.h. If
this was not done, multiple definition errors arose at link time on
_malloc, _realloc, and _free.
Emacs version 18.50 has been dying on random window updates. This
seems to happen more when I run two copies of Emacs, but this could
just be due to more frequent window updates when I switch between
Emacs. When Emacs dies, it prints "synchronization lost" in the window
it was executed from. Since 18.50 is out of date, we built a new copy
of Emacs 18.53. This functioned even worse than version 18.50.
Normal character entry caused heavy CPU usage (load average over 1,
where the old version normally ran significantly under 1). Version
18.53 also died during screen update, although no error messages were
printed.
Are there any special things that have to be done to build Emacs for
DEC's X11 implementation? Does anyone know if Emacs version 18.54
fixes any of these problems?
Thanks for reading this. I will be grateful for any help.
Ian Kaplan
Sr. Software Engineer
MasPar Computer Corp.
Sunnyvale, CA
(408) 736-3300
argosy!ian@decwrl.dec.com