Though I do not use emacs, I have used exceed. What I think is happening is that you are not correctly setting your DISPLAY variable. From what I am told, if you have no DISPLAY set, emacs starts as a standard app in the terminal it is in. If it is set, emacs starts as an X app. Exceed sets this variable when it starts up the first window. From what I can tell, xfree does not. What happens if you set an appropriate DISPLAY and then run emacs& ?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Samir Gupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:50 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Using Multiple X Windows > > > Hello, > > I have a question which I could not find the answer to in > searching the > archives... > > I am trying to make window management in cygwin/xfree the > same way I have it > set up in exceed. I start up tcsh in exceed with my xterm > command which > opens up an x window with the tcsh prompt. From this prompt, > every time I > type "emacs &", it will bring up a new xwindow with the emacs program. > > I cannot figure out how to do this in cygwin/xfree. From my > tcsh prompt, I > type "xwin" to start the xfree window. Now, every time I > type "emacs &", it > opens up an emacs in the same xfree window. I am wondering > how I can get it > to open up a separate xfree window each time I type "emacs &" > as I can in > exceed? > > I tried messing around with the xwin -screen option, but I > could not come up > with anything... > > Thanks > > >
