Re: adsl and xemacs (beginner)
Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:34:35PM -0800, Kapil Khosla wrote:
>> 2) I used apt-get install xemacs and got the editor but am not able
>> to open it from console (xemacs &),I get the follwing error
>> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>>
>> Initialization error: X server not responding
>> : ":0.0"
>
> You can't use it from console. Or did you mean xterminal?
You actually can run Emacs from a text console; 'emacs -nw' (or
'xemacs -nw') will ignore the setting of the DISPLAY environment
variable and run in the console. If you don't have the DISPLAY
environment variable set, both Emacsen will come up in this mode by
default.
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