Re: Commands not working

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

"mudgen@gmail.com" <mudgen@gmail.com> writes:

> Then I was in X. Then I tried emacs in X and it worked perfectly. Then
> I went to a terminal and tried it from a terminal outside X and it was
> now working perfectly. I got out of X and tried a terminal and it
> worked perfectly. I rebooted my computer. And with a reboot and only
> being in a terminal and not having X running anywhere, emacs ran
> perfectly.

you can avoid rebooting altogether by either using "emacs -nw", or by
unsetting the DISPLAY env var in the terminal where you want to run
emacs.  really, rebooting is not the height of debugging style.  better
to inform yourself of some core concepts and rework your mental model.

thi