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Old 01-14-2010, 02:50 PM   #1
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Emacs on Slackware-Current


The menu icons for emacs on Slackware-Current are showing as red x's. Tried running installpkg for emacs again but it didn't help. The version I see on the mirrors is

21/Nov/2008 00:00 27 MB emacs-22.3-i486-2.txz

Anyone know where the icons are?

Still works correctly on Fedora 12.
 
Old 01-14-2010, 03:02 PM   #2
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Are you... current with -current?
The only thing that comes to mind is http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/gtk-...denly-missing/ but this has been fixed long ago.
 
Old 01-14-2010, 03:08 PM   #3
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If you're using KDE, right click on the KDE logo in the Kicker, click on Menu Editor,then Development, then Emacs, then the square in the GUI - that brings up all the icons. Hope that's clear enough.
 
Old 01-15-2010, 08:27 AM   #4
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If you're using KDE, right click on the KDE logo in the Kicker, click on Menu Editor,then Development, then Emacs, then the square in the GUI - that brings up all the icons. Hope that's clear enough.
Curious. Starting from the GUI works but I normally start with a setup script from a rxvt window. From a terminal window the script works as it is supposed to do giving a full functional emacs. Guess I'll have to give up trying to minimize the impact of the user interface on my number crunching.

Robert McBroom
 
Old 01-16-2010, 02:36 AM   #5
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Guess I'll have to give up trying to minimize the impact of the user interface on my number crunching.
Why would you? Just open a shell and type
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emacs -nw
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:06 PM   #6
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Why would you? Just open a shell and type
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emacs -nw
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That really is minimal. Not text menu or icons.

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Old 01-19-2010, 03:49 AM   #7
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Oh, do you mean the toolbar icons are missing? If so, I've no idea how to fix that. I thought you meant the icon in KDE's main menu.
 
Old 01-20-2010, 02:25 AM   #8
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i'm just wondering if you have also issued a command 'slackpkg install-new' for the upgrade, since the icon-themes in -current is now a separate package.

If you just upgraded 13 to -current with commands 'slackpkg update' 'slackpkg upgrade-all', you will definitely missing the new icon-theme package.
 
Old 05-06-2010, 06:34 PM   #9
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I have installed 13 and see this same problem. i.e. the emacs toolbar icons are red Xs.

Plus if I use emacs -nw, which I do sometimes, the key mapping is different.

alt-shift-< should take me to the top but instead it inserts a 1/4 glyph
other strange things too

with just emacs I don't have those issues.
 
Old 05-06-2010, 07:47 PM   #10
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What do you see in /usr/share/emacs/22.3/etc/images (for Slackware 13)? For -current, it will be in a similar directory, depending upon the specific emacs version there.
 
Old 05-06-2010, 08:22 PM   #11
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The directory has many .xpm files and a README that mentions converting .xpm to .pbm.
Is that what's needed?
 
Old 05-07-2010, 12:30 AM   #12
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The directory has many .xpm files and a README that mentions converting .xpm to .pbm.
Is that what's needed?
I don't believe the conversion is needed, since my toolbar icons in emacs 22.3 are in color.

I've looked at tool-bar.el to see what they are doing, but that is some major elisp-fu. I can't tell where they are looking for the icons.
 
Old 05-13-2010, 02:36 AM   #13
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Plus if I use emacs -nw, which I do sometimes, the key mapping is different.

alt-shift-< should take me to the top but instead it inserts a 1/4 glyph
other strange things too
That's strange, M-shift-< takes me to the top in both emacs and emacs -nw
 
Old 05-13-2010, 11:56 AM   #14
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A few thoughts:
  1. On the keybindings -- I use a special keymap in my terminals (and I boot to runlevel 3). The default, I believe has only one of the alt keys set up as a meta key. I call my custom keymap during startup with the rc.keymap script.
  2. Toolbar icons -- I built Emacs 23.2 from source on Slackware64_13 and noticed that the toolbar has different icons than Emacs 22.3. I know that the defaults are different, but the SlackBuild script in the source for Emacs 23.2 in -current configures it with the GTK toolkit. I suspect that the original poster is either having trouble with the GTK icons or there's a problem with the makefile of the new version of Emacs.

I guess the question is whether or not other people are having the same trouble in -current with Emacs 23.2.
 
  


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