Questions tagged [linux]
for Emacs and GNU/Linux operating system-specific issues about compiling, installing, configuring, running, editing, and debugging.
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Emacs can't see system fonts on Debian
I have small problem with fonts' availability in Emacs on Debian 10.
I have downloaded 'Fira Code' fonts and correctly installed them. They are exists on fc-list and are available in other programs ...
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.svg not exported through org-export + paragraphs not separated after newline
I have been constantly trying to render a logo.svg found in my custom title-page (included in #LATEX:) to match our university title-page for academic writings, but have unfortunately not had success ...
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How to get the PATH from the SHELL
When launched at system start-up, the Emacs daemon doesn't pick up modifications to the PATH introduced by shell initialization scripts.
Emacswiki suggests to use this function to update Emacs' PATH,
(...
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How to install Emacs 26 on CentOS 7?
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
To install Emacs on CentOS I use this:
sudo yum install epel-release
sudo yum install emacs
Nice. But the problem is that... it install old version of Emacs = 24....
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how to set up Emacs so it shows images
Linux Mint 20
Emacs 26.3
I installed package dired-icon (https://www.topbug.net/dired-icon/) and restarted Emacs. I then did
M-x dired-icon-mode
But icon in dired mode does not show and in the mini ...
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Tramp hangs indefinitely when using doas on Linux
Tramp works fine when I try to edit with sudo or ssh, but when I try to edit with doas it will hang (while also maxing out my cpu). Here is some tramp output:
backtrace()
tramp-signal-hook-...
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User emacs has no home directory
I am an emacs newbie running emacs doom on Linux. I am learning how to use traditional emacs in my free time and have an emacs config file that I want to test out.
I launch my traditional emacs by ...
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emacs27 : Depends: emacs27-common but it is not going to be installed
I has Emacs 25.3
emacs -version
GNU Emacs 25.3.2
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Emacs
under the terms ...
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Emacsclient works in terminal but not in gui mode
Prerequisites
GNU Emacs 28.0.50 built from sources.
Emacs daemon started via systemd with .config/systemd/user/emacs.service:
[Unit]
Description=Emacs text editor
Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(...
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How do I get colour emoji to display in Emacs
Emacs 27 gained support for Cairo for font rendering and this is supposed to let me render emojis but I can't find out how to make it work. I just about managed to set up some fontsets but the emoji ...
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How to call Elisp functions from my own implementation of a shell?
I'm writing my own shell which can handle most of the GNU/Linux system calls now. So I was wondering if I could make this shell call Elisp functions too. Is it possible to do so? Is so, how do I get ...
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Binding XF86Cut and XF86Copy to Emacs Commands
I have a keyboard with dedicated keys for XF86Cut, XF86Copy, XF86Paste. I want to bind these to Emacs commands. The goal is get the usual behavior for cut-and-paste between Emacs, my terminal, and my ...
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Is the Hyper modifier key usable on non-X11 platforms?
I have a hyper modifier setup, however I was wondering if it's possible to use this on any windowing systems besides X11, for example:
macOS
Wayland
Win32
The terminal.
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Receive windows manager notifications of display changes
Is there a way for emacs to receive display changes notification from the windows manager? I understand this might be an OS dependent question, so I'm particularly interested in the interaction ...
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Spacemacs crashing on start with Ubuntu 20.04
I'm having a problem where every time I open Spacemacs it immediately crashes on Ubuntu 20.04. It was crashing for some actions with Magit and starting a CIDER REPL so I decided to do a fresh install. ...
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Emacs terminal - the location before the command prompt
My emacs terminal is currently displaying ;0user@Ubuntu: ~user@Ubuntu:~$".
This happened after my friend was using my laptop, and is persisting after uninstalling and reinstalling emacs, as well as ...
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Newbie to emacs. need help
Are there any good resources that anyone can suggest. I rate myself 3 out of 10 when it comes to using editors like vim
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emacs: Work out which monitor is the primary one
Is there a way to programatically work out which display is considered the "primary" display for X within emacs?
I've managed to get a function working that determines if the machine has more than ...
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Does Emacs 26.3 require older version of ImageMagick?
I've just upograded Ubuntu 19.04, which installs imagemagick 7. When trying to start my Emacs install, I see the following error:
emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.3:...
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C-/ results in backspace in the Linux console
I am using emacs on many machines, and always use C-/ for undo. However, I started working on a Raspberry Pi with Arch Linux recently, using a local text terminal - X is not installed. Here, C-/ has ...
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Can emacs on Mac using native window system connect to an emacs server on a Linux system
At this point I believe I am using the emacs version on my Mac that is built by Homebrew and the "stock" emacs on Ubuntu 18.04.
I set up emacs server on the Ubuntu host as it is described in Starting ...
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Access Serial Port on Remote System
Is there a nifty emacs command to access the serial port on a remote system?;)
I've seen socat, which creates a virtual serial port on the local system, but if emacs can do it directly, without that, ...
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macro execution with i-search fails under Linux and succeeds under windows?
Imagine you've got file with FirstName|LastName| like this :
John|toto|
Hanz|titi|
and want to put the first names at the end of the lines (just an stupid exemple). You may use Macro Recordind for ...
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How do I link an email from a webpage to mu4e?
So when I press a link in, for example firefox, it open Emacs mu4e "Compose email" with the receiver attached.
I’m on Linux.
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Labelling LaTeX sub-equations in org-mode
How to achieve subequation numbering a,b,etc like https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Advanced_Mathematics#Subordinate_equation_numbering in org-mode. I tried using the LaTeX snippet as it is and ...
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Problem saving (C-x C-s) files on a NFS drive with emacs 24/25
Starting with Emacs 24 (using various different versions of Ubuntu and Linux Mint), if I open a file on an NFS drive, modify it and attempt to save it C-x C-s, I get the message of: Saving <...
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Set a title to an Emacs instance running in a terminal
On Ubuntu, I usually open more than one Emacs instances in the same time (for frontend and back development). These instances always by default take the name "Terminal" as a title as shown on this ...
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xclip-mode returns “Unknown upattern” and does not work
The command M-x xclip-mode returns the following info in *Messages*:
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Unknown upattern `(quote pbpaste)'") [2 times]
Xclip mode enabled
I cannot yank text from ...
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Adjusting to screen resolution changes on GNU/Linux/ubuntu/gnome
I'm running emacs 26.1 on ubuntu 18.04 on a Dell laptop with a high-resolution display. It works very well in that configuration. It also works very well when the laptop is plugged into a lower-...
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Problem with file-exists-p function on Linux running as VirtualBox guest
Until this morning, my emacs setup (running on Arch Linux as a VirtualBox guest) was working absolutely fine. Then for no obvious reason I started experiencing the following issue:
If I opened an ...
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Dired: File open using external viewers, based on filetype, and without prompting
When I hit RETURN on a filename in Dired, I'd like Emacs to automatically do one of several things, depending on the file's type:
1 - If it's a text file, I'd like to open the file in a new buffer in ...
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Disable LINUX mode in Emacs
I am using Emacs 25.3 on Mac and when I try to open some linux kernel code, the behavior is different as below:
I cannot simply open a C file, but I am prompted for arch each time.
Occasionally, ...
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How does emacs respond to Unix signals?
I'd like to know how GNU Emacs responds, by defaults, to such signals as HUP and USR1. Is this behavior documented in any manual? If so, where? If not, is there a place I could look in the source ...
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Setting up Emacs/AUCTeX viewer
I have installed AUCTeX, it compiled a test file OK, but I can't view the output.
I get " Cannot get Evince viewer ...". Xviewer, should be the analogue in my distro, I think (I have not way to check ...
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Dired: Open files by external application in Linux
I want to open several types of files in Dired by different external applications.
For example:
.doc files with LibreOffice
.pdf files with evince
.jpg files with pinta
etc...
How do i configure ...
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string-rectangle command pollutes kill-ring after upgrade to Emacs 25
In Emacs 24 I used to have a workflow for inserting a string into multiple lines at once:
Go to the desired position in the first line.
Press C-Space to place the mark.
Go to the last line (while ...
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emacs 25.3 not rendering correctly, especially after resize
The problem is when emacs starts, the right 1/4 of the window doesn't repaint and shows whatever window was behind it.
Also on resize, sometimes the font and the cursor get way too big and the ...
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Copy/paste between SSH terminal Emacs and macOS
Suppose you are working in macOS, and you decide to SSH into a Linux box and fire up terminal Emacs. How do you copy and paste between macOS and your SSH terminal-Emacs?
Copying and pasting between ...
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From Org code block on *nix run (Power-)Shell (scripts) on MS Windows via SSH
To better integrate my Windows DevOps into Emacs Org-mode, I'd like to use my local emacs as an IDE for a remote Powershell.
SSH was easily setup, from Linux shell ssh I can successfully login to a ...
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How can i make Emacs use the System input method and Language?
Problem :
I am using Emacs for general text typing and editing outside my Programming. This requires me to type in local languages of India ( specifically Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil ).
I am on ...
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(To file an emacs bug report) are there services out there that let's me ssh to a clean GNU Linux machine
I want to file a bug report about emacs.
From what I learnt, bug reports relating to GNU/Linux
are given precedence over more exotic OS's like MacOS.
I can spin up an ubuntu instance in 10 seconds ...
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xclip hangs shell-command
I like to use the xclip utility to capture the output of commands on the clipboard. However, when I try to use it with shell-command it seems to hang.
In a "normal" shell I can run a command such as ...
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How to set eshell's ls command to different program in different OS?
Since result of /usr/bin/ls is more neat compares with eshell/ls when filenames contain non-lattin Unicodes. I add an alias in ~/.emacs.d/eshell/alias, which makes eshell use /usr/bin/ls as default:
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What does emacs want for non-ASCII keys
Under Debian-Jessie, Emacs recognizes qualified special keys, e.g. C-<home>, in an X terminal (e.g. mate-terminal) but in TTY it does not.
I have corrected this by making a replacement keymap, ...
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can not access melpa packages- hung up at Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80
I am trying to access the melpa packages but when typing:
package-refresh-contents
emacs gets hung up at: "Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80"
I am completely new to emacs and fairly new to Linux and ...
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keybinding to switch to specific application
I'm running Emacs in a GUI, and I like having a keybinding that quickly switches me to a terminal. Yes, I know there's eshell, term, and shell in Emacs, but I still prefer a dedicated terminal ...
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How to build Emacs for an embedded ARM Linux system
I am trying to build Emacs for an embedded ARM Linux system. Unfortunately, it is proving to be more difficult than I anticipated. I have the device mounted at /mnt/my_device. Now I am not sure ...
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Emacs doesn't open a new frame
Emacs does not start in a new frame.
If I'm in a terminal running Bash and enter $>emacs the editor is opened inside this terminal, and produces exactly the same behavior as $>emacs -nw. I have ...
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how to debug who move cursor
I have very annoying problem, after I run M-x compile time to time
cursor jump from middle of buffer to the first line.
I want to find out culprit (I found mode who responsible for this,
but I want ...
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How to make GUI Emacs use all available space when running maximized on linux?
GUI Emacs running maximized on my Linux (centos7+kde) is not using all the available space leaving some space around the borders, specially at the top and the bottom.
Sample of GUI emacs running "...
