> > Actually, if I install Emacs before I install X, it will run just fine > as a console application. If you have X and the full up Emacs you can > run it in an xterm with the "-nw" switch. > > I'd like to avoid recompiling, as my motive for all this is to be > able to re-install quickly from time to time, e.g. for testing > purposes. >
Charles, My point wasn't that Emacs wouldn't run without X, but rather that the distribution you run (Ubuntu is my guess) requires X libs to be installed as a dependency. Now I could be wrong, but wasn't that the point of your request? To run Emacs over ssh? Or did you want to run emacs in GUI mode over an ssh connection without requiring the X libs? If that is the case, have you tried just forwarding X over ssh using the -X switch in ssh and then running the GUI on your system. It should work, but again, I'm not sure what requirements would be made to have the GUI components installed. Cheers, Clint /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
