X11 and GNU emacs

[Stephen C. Hill]

In article <1991Mar11.222925.25685 at news.larc.nasa.gov>,
jka at radar0.larc.nasa.gov (J. Keith Alston) writes:
> 
>  Hello out there,
>      I've just built and installed GNU emacs on a COMPAQ 386-33
>  running ISC unix v2.2. Everything seems to work fine except that
>  when I try to start emacs under X windows I get the following:
> 
>  X server not responding. Check your DISPLAY environment variable.
> 
>  I built emacs with HAVE_X_WINDOWS and X11 defined. anyone have any
>  idea whats wrong.
>

I have to (under csh) "setenv DISPLAY xtermname:0" (where xtermname is
the name of the x-window terminal that you want the emacs window to open
up on).  I would suppose that "DISPLAY=xtermname:0;export DISPLAY" would
be needed under Bourne shell.

Steve

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