Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:32:04 -0400
> 
> > There was never such a change, not recently anyway.  Emacs always
> > behaved like what you see now, since it got the GUI frame support on
> > X.  Perhaps you were used to run an Emacs that was built without X
> > support, or something else that didn't allow Emacs to create a GUI
> > frame.
> 
> X enabled Emacs seem to behave like any other tty/x enabled application.
> If $DISPLAY is set, you get the GUI.
> 
> Type:
> 
> DISPLAY=  emacs
> 
> and you get text mode.

Of course, that's what I meant by "something else".  It's rather rare
to see a working X system where DISPLAY is not set correctly.