bug#40762: closed (Re: bug#40762: UI screws up Ubuntu 18.04)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pearson <r.pearson@ieee.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 01:52:46 -0400
> 
> Emacs should use ncurses for the text-mode frames, but the default is
> > to start a GUI frame, where curses is not relevant at all.
> >
> > So I don't think I understand the nature of your problems.
> 
> The problem is "Emacs should" and "So I don't think I understand the nature 
> of your problems".
> The second is obviously true. The first is the difference between "Emacs 
> should" and "Emacs does".

So in your case, Emacs starts in text mode?  That is, it opens its
display in the same window as the shell from which you invoked Emacs?

A GUI frame (a.k.a. "window") is a separate window, and it includes
such GUI elements as menu, tool bar (a row of buttons with small icons
on them), and vertical scroll bar.  Is that what you see?