Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:03:36 +0530 From: ashish@FreeBSD.org (Ashish SHUKLA) To: "Markus Hoenicka" <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emacs splash screen went to textmode only Message-ID: <86eif0xi0f.fsf@chateau.d.if> In-Reply-To: <19523.21705.648520.937010@yeti.mininet> (Markus Hoenicka's message of "Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:23:53 %2B0200") References: <19523.21705.648520.937010@yeti.mininet>
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Hi Markus, Markus Hoenicka writes: > Hi, > I've recently updated Emacs to the latest version (23.2_2,2 from > 23.1.1) along with all dependencies. Since then, the startup screen > when running in an X window shows b/w text only like in the days of > yore. Not that the startup screen graphics are that important, but > things that don't work as expected tend to make me nervous. Can you upload the screenshot of what you're getting ? > According to startup.el, the following variables affect what is shown > at startup. Evaluating them in the scratch buffer looks like this: > inhibit-startup-screen > nil > initial-buffer-choice > nil > That is, the startup screen *should* be displayed, or am I missing > something here? > The interesting thing is that nothing else about the startup screen > appears broken. If I evaluate > (fancy-startup-screen) > in the scratch buffer, i.e. the function which actually displays the > startup screen, Emacs faithfully does so, including the graphics and > all bells and whistles. > Has anything fundamentally changed between these versions? Does Emacs > think it runs in a terminal? Any clues would be greatly appreciated. Can you try starting Emacs in X11 with following command: #v+ % emacs -q --no-site-file #v- Thanks -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ “We've so many people in India, that we're able to route each network packet manually.” (nobotz)
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