Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 09:58:26 +0200
> 
> You need to start Emacs with 'emacs -nw' (for
> --no-window-system). They changed the default behaviour a couple
> of versions back, so now you get them same from typing 'emacs' in
> a terminal, as clicking an Emacs icon in your GNOME, KDE, or
> whatever desktop suite: and what you get is a *new* windows with
> the Emacs with the WM menus, the buttons, etc.

There was never such a change, not recently anyway.  Emacs always
behaved like what you see now, since it got the GUI frame support on
X.  Perhaps you were used to run an Emacs that was built without X
support, or something else that didn't allow Emacs to create a GUI
frame.