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Downplay LessTif in docs, since Motif is now free software,
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and even http://lesstif.sourceforge.net/ recommends it over LessTif.
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rgmorris committed Jan 23, 2014
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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
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--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.
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test "`echo /usr/lib/libX11.*`" != "/usr/lib/libX11.*"; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries
were found. You should install the relevant development files for X
and for the toolkit you want, such as Gtk+, Lesstif or Motif. Also make
and for the toolkit you want, such as Gtk+ or Motif. Also make
sure you have development files for image handling, i.e.
tiff, gif, jpeg, png and xpm.
If you are sure you want Emacs compiled without X window support, pass
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