Re: My app-defaults won't work for emacs any more

[Yuri Khan]

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@bell.net> wrote:

>> It's using GTK+ user interface! Yuck! Yuck! Why can't I have a emacs
>> that looks like Unix, Ubuntu?! I lost xterm-like scroll bar years ago,
>> now the whole Unix-like look and feel!
>
> No one is stopping you from recompiling emacs with
> "--with-toolkit=<lucid, athena or motif>"

For lucid, it’s not even necessary — Ubuntu ships the emacs23-lucid
package, one only has to ask for it.

Though, I don’t see what’s so bad in having a GTK+ Emacs in a
GTK+-based GNU/Linux distribution :]