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authorGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2014-01-22 21:09:31 -0500
committerGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2014-01-22 21:09:31 -0500
commit893e631c5228fa7037da79bbc68efe4419e09865 (patch)
tree5a018a00d24c219d0c5a4539ca56c15357fd3370 /INSTALL
parent45d9ec7571c1b6ec6050db4bf81e45405997ddec (diff)
downloademacs-893e631c5228fa7037da79bbc68efe4419e09865.tar.gz
Downplay LessTif in docs, since Motif is now free software,
and even http://lesstif.sourceforge.net/ recommends it over LessTif.
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@@ -254,14 +254,11 @@ accept a list of directories, separated with colons.
To get more attractive menus, you can specify an X toolkit when you
configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where
TOOLKIT is `gtk' (the default), `athena', or `motif' (`yes' and
-`lucid' are synonyms for `athena'). On some systems, it does not work
-to use a toolkit with shared libraries. A free implementation of
-Motif, called LessTif, is available from <http://www.lesstif.org>.
-Compiling with LessTif or Motif causes a standard File Selection
-Dialog to pop up when you invoke file commands with the mouse. You
-can get fancy 3D-style scroll bars, even without Gtk or LessTif/Motif,
-if you have the Xaw3d library installed (see "Image support libraries"
-above for Xaw3d availability).
+`lucid' are synonyms for `athena'). Compiling with Motif causes a
+standard File Selection Dialog to pop up when you invoke file commands
+with the mouse. You can get fancy 3D-style scroll bars, even without
+Gtk or Motif, if you have the Xaw3d library installed (see
+"Image support libraries" above for Xaw3d availability).
You can tell configure where to search for GTK by specifying
`--with-pkg-config-prog=PATH' where PATH is the pathname to
@@ -295,8 +292,7 @@ or more of these options:
--without-gif for GIF image support
--without-png for PNG image support
-Use --without-toolkit-scroll-bars to disable LessTif/Motif or Xaw3d
-scroll bars.
+Use --without-toolkit-scroll-bars to disable Motif or Xaw3d scroll bars.
Use --without-xim to inhibit the default use of X Input Methods.
In this case, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn on use of XIM.