Dear List,
I apologise in advance if there is an established solution to this
problem out there; an hour or so with manuals/google hasn't turned
anything up.
I have installed gnu emacs 23.4 on my linux system (Lubuntu), and I can
run it just fine from my terminal, but I can't get it to load in gui
mode. Emacs has appeared in my desktop menus but clicking it does
nothing (no error messages, nothing at all, even though the command is
fine if I do it manually in the terminal). Clicking 'run' and typing
Emacs also gets nothing. I scoured the manual for an option to force
gui mode but there doesn't appear to be one, just an opposite for
forcing terminal mode (-nw).
Perhaps this has something to do with the LXDE desktop environment?
(Googling various combinations of this and Lubuntu didn't turn anything
up.) Or perhaps I installed it from the wrong file? I used the file
`emacs-23.4.tar.gz' from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/.
I'm sure it would work if I installed it from the package manager, but
I'm doing this as something of an educational exercise in installing
applications manually. Therefore it isn't urgent, but any help would be
much appreciated.