Re: Building 22.1, on Ubuntu

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 16:19:35 +0100
>> From: "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> 
>> as root, I'm still getting the text based version. Why? No idea.
>
> Probably because it's aliased to "emacs -nw" or something.  root
> sometimes needs to run when there's no X support yet.

More likely because "as root" he does not have DISPLAY set properly,
or XAUTHORITY.

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