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emacs open display problem
- From: "parminides at netzero dot net" <parminides at netzero dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:48:17 GMT
- Subject: emacs open display problem
I have been an avid cygwin user for several years. I recently bought a new HP laptop with Vista, and I immediately installed cygwin. I had a few glitches but was able to figure out fixes for all of them but one: emacs just flat-out refuses to open a display window. This is the only program which has this problem that I know about so far. Everything else that I commonly use works fine.
I've tried the following commands in an xterm, all to no avail:
emacs &
emacs -d :0 &
emacs -d 0:0 &
I don't get any error messages, but no emacs either.
Emacs is installed, by the way. I can run it in the parent xterm window by
emacs -nw
but this doesn't work right either (it freezes up, the keystroke commands don't work right, etc.).
Also, the phantom emacs processes that never open a window show up in ps.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling emacs, but no luck.
I searched the mail archives and couldn't find anyone else who had seen this problem. Any ideas?
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