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

[Dan Espen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

X enabled Emacs seem to behave like any other tty/x enabled application.
If $DISPLAY is set, you get the GUI.

Type:

DISPLAY=  emacs

and you get text mode.

-- 
Dan Espen