Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something!

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On Jan 18, 1:52 pm, dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:
> Just made an emacs (23.1) on Solaris 10 sparc.  Was
> using gnome when I did it.
>
> ./configure  ... ... --with-gif=no  ...
>
> Now, I thought that the use for libgif (or giflib?) was
> so that you could show *photographs*, things like that.
>
> (I used the with-gif=no because, on comp.unix.solaris,  that was
> how I was told to do the configure.)
>
> Anyway, that and the make (gmake) worked ok.
>
> And when I actually ran the newly-built emacs (in ../src/),
> hooray!, I finally had an emacs on this otherwise naked machine.
>
> But it sure didn't look like the ntemacs I'm running on xp,
> with the large fancy colorful "script" EMACS it showed on
> starting up.
>
> No such luck.  What I got was like 30 years ago emacs running
> on an ADM-3a or vt-100: took no advantage of the gnome gui
> it was running under.
>
> Question: could that "no gif" do that?  (I hope not!)
>
> So, what might I have done wrong?
>
> ---
>
> I was executing it from terminal-window's tcsh command-line,
> rather than by clicking an icon.  SURELY that has nothing
> to do with it -- but do tell me if I'm wrong.
>
> Thanks for any advice!

What happens if you turn on gif?