[gnu.emacs.help] Help needed with 18.57 and X

smiley@wotan.compaq.com ( (-: Colin Patrick Smiley :-)) (03/23/91)

I am in the prosses of setting up emacs 18.57 on a 386 box running ISC
2.2 UNIX(a flavor of Sys V).  I got emacs to compile fine with all of
the X #defines and so forth, and emacs runs fine as long as you don't
try to run it out of it's own window.  The following command line, run
fomr the $BUILD/src/ directory:

xemacs -d aix:1 -r -i -fn 9x15

or

xemacs -d unix:1 -r -i -fn 9x15

Yields the error:

X server not responding.  Check your DISPLAY Environment variable.

I know my display is correct, as I have been using it for a bunch of
other X applications.  Also, when I try to use temacs, to see what
that gives me, it comes up in it's own window fine.(for this I used
temacs -d aix:1 -r -i -fn 9x15).

I am befuddled as to what would let temacs run fine under X, but not
xemacs.  Am I missing something, or is this an actual bug of ISC or
emacs?


On another topic, just what is emacsclient for?

Thanks for your help...


Colin