I am running slack 10 with gnome-2.6.1.1. When I open a file with emacs by right clicking on the file and choosing emacs from the Open With menu I get an hourglass for several seconds and a opening file button down in the panel. This behavior does not occur if I run emacs from the command line and the file type seems to make no difference. I tested this using kde and had no problem. Has anyone else run into this? It annoys me.
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The other one may be using emacsclient.

when u click an icon, it executes some command line
i'd look into what command line is actually being executed when u click the emacs icon in gnome.

Good point doublefailure. I took a file with no file association to emacs and added the command emacs to its actions. When I double click on the file the same problem occurs. Emacs opens immediately however there is a annoying hourglass for about fifteen seconds and a button in the panel stating "opening file" Strangely enough if I close emacs immediately I still have an hourglass and the panel button for about 15 seconds. I preformed an additional test by adding emacs to a launcher with the command emacs foo.txt. The problem does not occur when running this launcher. It seems to be specific to the Open With action or the gnome mime type.

have u looked at menu editor in kde?

i''ve not used gnome, but presume there's similar thing in gnome too.
i'd look into that

I found an ugly work around that involved running emacs in a terminal for a particular file type. I then edited the requires_terminal line in the application-info config to false basically negating my previous step but I really didn't want a terminal open constantly. I have no idea why this works as opposed to simply adding the emacs command to a file action but I am happy now.