Windowed emacs in X11

Another addition to my post:

I have checked on xclock, xman and xcalculator. Those apps work fine.

But Veritas Volume Manager 3.5 and Oracle Enterprise Manager aren't.

Does that ring a bell???

Thank you,
Holger

I'm afraid the two problems have no more to do with one another than Saddam Hussain and Osama bin Laden.

Xwindows applications can iconify but to my knowledge they don't do the OS 9 window shade thing. Do you have a third-party haxie that makes windows shade? If so, disable it for X11. Maybe that might help.

Xwindows applications can iconify but to my knowledge they don't do the OS 9 window shade thing.

Window shade? You mean, where it collapses to a shape the size of the title bar only?

It depends on the window manager. Some do, some don't. At work I use Afterstep; it does. Apple's window manager doesn't; they went with the "send it to the Dock" idea instead.

I had a similar issue with an user I was supporting (our IT
does not "support" Macs, and has minimal experience, but as the Unix guy I got to support this user).

The user was complaining about differences between xterm and
default terminal. One difference was emacs would start in
separate window on one (I think xterm) and in non-windowed mode in other. Setting $DISPLAY in terminal did not change
situation.

I could not figure out differences re where the two were getting default paths, etc (I think one was running tcsh and the other just csh, no idea why) so eventually just added to .cshrc a line explicitly adding any dirs occuring only in one term app's path (figuring dups in path are relatively harmless, and assuming order should matter little). At that point neither would open a new window.

Anyway, I can't explain above or the following, but by aliasing emacs to something like /Applications/Emacs/.../Emacs
(forget the exact path, but there was an Emacs with capital
E file in directory one or two above the one with the emacs
executable found by 'which' command), the command would
always open X emacs window.