Re: Creating X-window frame from Emacs in TTY

[Kevin Rodgers]

Nicolas Neuss wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I wanted to open an X frame for an Emacs started with "emacs -nw".  This
> works for XEmacs, but does not work with Emacs (21.2.1 on Debian Woody).
>
> "M-x make-frame-on-display -> :0.0"  doesn't do anything
>
> I tried also something like
>
> (setq frame-creation-function 'x-create-frame-with-faces)
>
> Then "M-x make-frame-on-display -> :0.0" yields the error
>
> x-create-frame-with-faces: X windows are not in use or not initialized
>
> Is there a way to obtain this feature, maybe using a more recent Emacs?  If
> not, why is it disallowed?

See http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-01/msg00019.html


I don't know if that's been committed in CVS Emacs, though.

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Kevin Rodgers