END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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+File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q2.0.4, Next: Q2.0.5, Prev: Q2.0.3, Up: Installation
+
+Q2.0.4: Problems with Linux and ncurses.
+----------------------------------------
+
+ On Linux 1.3.98 with termcap 2.0.8 and the ncurses that came with
+libc 5.2.18, XEmacs 20.0b20 is unable to open a tty device:
+
+ src/xemacs -nw -q
+ Initialization error:
+ Terminal type `xterm' undefined (or can't access database?)
+
+ Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org> writes:
+
+ Your ncurses configuration is messed up. Your /usr/lib/terminfo
+ is a bad pointer, perhaps to a CD-ROM that is not inserted.
+
+\1f
File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q2.0.5, Next: Q2.0.6, Prev: Q2.0.4, Up: Installation
Q2.0.5: Do I need X11 to run XEmacs?
then proceed to link against the DNS resolver library code.
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-File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q2.0.12, Next: Q2.1.1, Prev: Q2.0.11, Up: Installation
+File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q2.0.12, Next: Q2.0.13, Prev: Q2.0.11, Up: Installation
Q2.0.12: Why can't I strip XEmacs?
----------------------------------
/usr/local/lib/xemacs-19.16/i586-unknown-linuxaout
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+File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q2.0.13, Next: Q2.0.14, Prev: Q2.0.12, Up: Installation
+
+Q2.0.13: I don't need no steenkin' packages. Do I? (NEW)
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+ Strictly speaking, no. XEmacs will build and install just fine
+without any packages installed. However, only the most basic editing
+functions will be available with no packages installed, so installing
+packages is an essential part of making your installed XEmacs _useful_.
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q2.0.14, Next: Q2.1.1, Prev: Q2.0.13, Up: Installation
+
+Q2.0.12: How do I figure out which packages to install? (NEW)
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ Many people really liked the old way that packages were bundled and
+do not want to mess with packages at all. You can grab all the
+packages at once like you used to with old XEmacs versions. Download
+the file
+
+ `xemacs-sumo.tar.gz'
+
+ For an XEmacs compiled with Mule you also need
+
+ `xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz'
+
+ from the `packages' directory on your XEmacs mirror archive. N.B.
+They are called 'Sumo Tarballs' for good reason. They are currently
+about 15MB and 2.3MB (gzipped) respectively.
+
+ Install them by
+
+ `cd $prefix/lib/xemacs ; gunzip -c <tarballname> | tar xf -'
+
+ See README.packages for more detailed installation instructions.
+
+ As the Sumo tarballs are not regenerated as often as the individual
+packages, it is recommended that you use the automatic package tools
+afterwards to pick up any recent updates.
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q2.1.1, Next: Q2.1.2, Prev: Q2.0.14, Up: Installation
2.1: Trouble Shooting
=====================
#define MAIL_USE_FLOCK
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-File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q2.1.24, Prev: Q2.1.23, Up: Installation
+File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q2.1.24, Next: Q2.1.25, Prev: Q2.1.23, Up: Installation
Q2.1.24: XEmacs won't start without network. (NEW)
---------------------------------------------------
Add that line, and XEmacs will be happy.
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+File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q2.1.25, Prev: Q2.1.24, Up: Installation
+
+Q2.1.25:: After upgrading, XEmacs won't do `foo' any more! (NEW)
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ You have been used to doing `foo', but now when you invoke it (or
+click the toolbar button or select the menu item), nothing (or an error)
+happens. The simplest explanation is that you are missing a package
+that is essential to you. You can either track it down and install it
+(there is a list of packages and brief descriptions of their contents in
+`etc/PACKAGES'), or install the `Sumo Tarball' (see *note Q2.0.14::).
+
+\1f
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3 Customization and Options
That is, use the file name, or the dired-directory, or the buffer
name.
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-File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q3.1.7, Next: Q3.1.8, Prev: Q3.1.6, Up: Customization
-
-Q3.1.7: `xemacs -name junk' doesn't work?
------------------------------------------
-
- When I run `xterm -name junk', I get an xterm whose class name
-according to xprop, is `junk'. This is the way it's supposed to work,
-I think. When I run `xemacs -name junk' the class name is not set to
-`junk'. It's still `emacs'. What does `xemacs -name' really do? The
-reason I ask is that my window manager (fvwm) will make a window sticky
-and I use XEmacs to read my mail. I want that XEmacs window to be
-sticky, without having to use the window manager's function to set the
-window sticky. What gives?
-
- `xemacs -name' sets the application name for the program (that is,
-the thing which normally comes from `argv[0]'). Using `-name' is the
-same as making a copy of the executable with that new name. The
-`WM_CLASS' property on each frame is set to the frame-name, and the
-application-class. So, if you did `xemacs -name FOO' and then created
-a frame named BAR, you'd get an X window with WM_CLASS = `( "BAR",
-"Emacs")'. However, the resource hierarchy for this widget would be:
-
- Name: FOO .shell .container .BAR
- Class: Emacs .TopLevelEmacsShell.EmacsManager.EmacsFrame
-
- instead of the default
-
- Name: xemacs.shell .container .emacs
- Class: Emacs .TopLevelEmacsShell.EmacsManager.EmacsFrame
-
- It is arguable that the first element of WM_CLASS should be set to
-the application-name instead of the frame-name, but I think that's less
-flexible, since it does not give you the ability to have multiple frames
-with different WM_CLASS properties. Another possibility would be for
-the default frame name to come from the application name instead of
-simply being `emacs'. However, at this point, making that change would
-be troublesome: it would mean that many users would have to make yet
-another change to their resource files (since the default frame name
-would suddenly change from `emacs' to `xemacs', or whatever the
-executable happened to be named), so we'd rather avoid it.
-
- To make a frame with a particular name use:
-
- (make-frame '((name . "the-name")))
-
-\1f
-File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q3.1.8, Next: Q3.2.1, Prev: Q3.1.7, Up: Customization
-
-Q3.1.8: `-iconic' doesn't work.
--------------------------------
-
- When I start up XEmacs using `-iconic' it doesn't work right. Using
-`-unmapped' on the command line, and setting the `initiallyUnmapped' X
-Resource don't seem to help much either...
-
- Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org> writes:
-
- Ugh, this stuff is such an incredible mess that I've about given up
- getting it to work. The principal problem is numerous
- window-manager bugs...
-
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