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  • emacs 25.1 on AIX: no gui

    From Burkhard Schultheis@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 20 10:46:29 2018
    I'm using emacs for about 20 years and now I have a problem I never had:
    The new installed emacs 25.1 from bull does not start his gui (AIX 7.2).
    Of course, I have installed all needed packages including emacs-X11-25.1-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm and other X11 programs are working
    normally. But if I start emacs, it starts in the terminal window. I've
    already tried emacs -d <DISPLAY>, but without success.

    What can I do?

    Regards
    Burkhard

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  • From invalid@invalid.invalid@21:1/5 to Burkhard Schultheis on Sat May 5 09:43:14 2018
    Burkhard Schultheis <burkhard.schultheis@web.de> wrote:
    I'm using emacs for about 20 years and now I have a problem I never had:
    The new installed emacs 25.1 from bull does not start his gui (AIX 7.2).
    Of course, I have installed all needed packages including emacs-X11-25.1-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm and other X11 programs are working

    Some library might be missing. To diagnose the problem try to see
    the options used at compilation time and look at what it says for the
    x-toolkit

    C-h v system-configuration-options
    M-x display-about-screen

    The best is that you compile emacs yourself

    wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-25.3.tar.gz
    tar xzvf emacs-25.3.tar.gz
    cd emacs-25.3
    ./configure --with-x-toolkit=KIT --prefix=/usr/local ; make ; make install

    KIT one of: yes or gtk, gtk2, gtk3, lucid or athena, motif, no

    Also try --without-xft if you cannot make it display.

    If that doesn't work downgrade to 24.x

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