Re: [SOLVED] Re: emacs-23.1.90 in terminal does not respond to keyboard input, but works fine as a standalone X11 app.

[Richard Lemieux]

Hi William,

On 12/05/2012 01:10 AM, William Gardella wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Richard Lemieux <jerlemieux@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The problem was that Emacs (or some X11 library routine) needed some
> > font that it could not find.  At that point Emacs had access to the
> > fonts provided by the basic X11 install  plus the fonts coming with
> > Linux.  After I moved all the fonts from my older Linux partition to
> > the newer one, the problem was gone.  Unfortunately I can't tell which
> > font was missing since I have accumulated too many fonts over the
> > years.
> >
> > So even when running Emacs in a 'linux' virtual console, one needs to
> > have some particular font installed (setting of LANG had no effect if
> > I recall correctly).
> >
> > Although I know the problem was related to some font, I still can't
> > tell why this specific choice of font is critical to the operation of
> > Emacs on a dumb 'linux' console.
> I'd be curious to know if the problem occurs for Emacs built both with
> ./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk and without, if Slackware will give you
> that option.
>
> -WGG
First, the issue was not really solved by getting additional fonts in 
/usr/share/fonts; it just reversed the problem.  Before adding the fonts I could 
use SCIM when emacs ran in its own window in X11, but X11 wouldn't catch my 
typing in a console or on a terminal. After adding the fonts, Emacs would catch 
my typing allright in a console (and this is why I sent a SOLVED message to the 
list), but later I realized that SCIM would no longer work with Emacs when Emacs 
ran in its own window.  In fact I was back to the same situation I was when I 
used the version of Emacs that came with Slackware14.  The version of Emacs I 
used in this test (this is not the Slackware14 Emacs) is my old Emacs-23.1.90 
configured as follows.

     ../emacs/configure --prefix=/opt/emacs_cvs --with-x-toolkit=athena 
--with-xft --without-dbus --without-gconf

Now, to answer your question, I re-configured as you suggest,

    ../emacs/configure --prefix=/opt/emacs_cvs --with-x-toolkit=gtk --with-xft 
--without-dbus --without-gsettings --without-gconf

The result of using toolkit 'gtk' here is that I still don't have SCIM input 
when Emacs is run in its own window, but in addition, Emacs does not even see 
what I type  when run on a terminal (emacs -nw) or on a console -- whether I am 
logged as a user or root.

I have double checked the setup of LANG and LC... variables and those are set as 
en_US.UTF-8 in X11 for a user and en_US for root.

So there is something other than the choice of font at play here ...

Richard