Re: Horizontal scroll bars

[Óscar Fuentes]

Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> writes:

> Okay, I've built emacs 25.1 but still no horizontal scroll bars.

Do you mean that M-x horizontal-scroll-bar-mode didn't work?

> Here is my configuration:
>
>     --with-x-toolkit=lucid \
>     --without-dbus         \
>     --without-gconf        \
>     --without-gsettings    \
>     --without-sound
>
> With
>
> Mx (horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p)
>
> I still get no match!

As mentioned on my previous reply,
`horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p' is not an interactive function. It
doesn't work from the M-x interface. You need to evaluate it. For
instance, switch to the *scratch* buffer, paste

(horizontal-scroll-bars-available-p)

put the cursor after the last paren and press C-x C-e

> Any ideas?

Maybe you need to build with GTK (which IIRC is the default when you
have the GTK development libraries installed.) On an empty build
directory, try invoking `path/to/emacs/source/configure' without
parameters and see if the summary mentions GTK. If yes, just complete
the build by running `make'.