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OS X Yosemite - no styles at emacs welcome screen

I have been installed emacs 25.1 on OS X Yosemite.

brew cask install emacs

Welcome screen looks like:

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But must be similar to

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So no styles, no pictures.

What am I missing?

UPDATE:

brew install emacs --with-cocoa

Gives the same result.

Solution

  • This behaviour appears to be triggered by the size of the start up screen.

    Making the initial start up screen bigger triggers the "fancy splash screen" for me:

    emacs -geometry 80x48

    Or instead add something to the .emacs file...

    ;; initial window
(setq initial-frame-alist
 '((width . 202) ; character
  (height . 60) ; lines
 ))

;; default/subsequent window
(setq default-frame-alist
 '((width . 202) ; character
  (height . 60) ; lines
))

    (See https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FrameSize for more details.)

    Alternatively, adjust the function which decides what kind of start up screen to display as described here: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/20976/x11-why-is-the-emacs-logo-image-missing-on-the-welcome-screen