Misha,
Your DISPLAY environment variable is not set.
$ echo $DISPLAY
should show something like:
:0.0
If not, your OS didn't set it up correctly.
Try:
$ DISPLAY=:0.0 emacs
Joost
"Misha" == Misha <mishgun@id.ru> writes:
> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:01:03 +0300
> I use Emacs 21.3 under Ubuntu Linux. I'm unable to
start
> emacs
> in a sepatate X11 Window. If I do
> bash$ emacs
> it starts in the terminal window. If I do
> bash$ emacs &
> it just stops.
> Do you have an idea what happens?
> Thanks in advance.
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