Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS

[Emanuel Berg]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> But, I'm not sure I'm doing what you suggest... once I tick that
> item, then at the same xterm command line, typing `emacs
> <enter>' starts emacs (In X) in its own new window.

You need to start Emacs with 'emacs -nw' (for
--no-window-system). They changed the default behaviour a couple
of versions back, so now you get them same from typing 'emacs' in
a terminal, as clicking an Emacs icon in your GNOME, KDE, or
whatever desktop suite: and what you get is a *new* windows with
the Emacs with the WM menus, the buttons, etc.

(Actually, I have already said that, or a variety thereof, several
times in this thread.)

> Not sure where that leaves things but now going to insert:
>    XTerm*metaSendsEscape:true
>
> Into my ~/.Xresources file.... but Doggone it, I don't remember
> how to reread .Xresources so that any changes become
> effective.... I'll have to restart X and see how it goes.

It might not help restarting X. You need 'xrdb ~/.Xresources'. To
automatize things, you can put that in .xinitrc - this I've *also*
mentioned, *and* it is in the link I posted. Are you paying
attention?

That said, I didn't get it to work in xterm in Solaris. In Linux,
the above formula did it.

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