From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting emacs icon in gnome Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8ecad399-1897-4630-90c6-a4af47b8fd87@l12g2000pra.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273001243 20111 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 19:27:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 19:27:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 21:27:22 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Nm5-0007XX-Ku for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 21:27:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Nm5-0001Ee-0u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 15:27:21 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l12g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 55 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.96.241.73 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1270016840 18543 127.0.0.1 (31 Mar 2010 06:27:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l12g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.96.241.73; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177611 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73090 Archived-At: On Mar 30, 11:57=A0pm, rustom wrote: > On Mar 30, 6:20=A0pm, Roger Mason wrote: > > > > > rustom writes: > > > I used to use emacs from my distro (usually debian or ubuntu) > > > Then I started compiling my own emacs > > > Then I thought -- Why keep the distro version -- And removed it. > > > > Now Ive no emacs icon for the bar at the top of gnome. > > > Can someone tell me how to set the icon? > > > Here's what I did to get the emacs icon on the Applications menu > > > (1) Right click on Applications. > > (2) Select Edit Menus > > (3) Select the sub-menu that contains the entry for Emacs > > (4) Select the entry for Emacs & right-click it > > (5) Select Properties > > (6) Click on the icon that appears on the left side of the dialogue box > > =A0 =A0 that pops up. > > (7) The file selector that pops up may contain the emacs icon, but you > > =A0 =A0 may have to browse around in other directories to see the icon = you > > =A0 =A0 want. On my Gentoo system it is in > > =A0 =A0 usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ > > > Hope this helps, > > Roger > > There is no more any emacs in the OS's side of things -- applications > edit menus etc > Also I cant see any edit menus in applications here under debian (and > I think ubuntu as well) > > emacs is under my $HOME which is in my path so calling emacs from the > shell works > So I created a gnome launcher which put some generic icon. > I want to change that to the emacs icon > I am unable to do so Replying to my own question: Ive got it working (without really knowing what how) There are all sorts of icons under my/emacs/install/path/23.1/etc/ images/icons I could not get gnome to look there So I copied some emacs.svg to the gnome icon directory No luck Then I copied copied another emacs.png to (another) gnome directory For sometime the icon changed to a strange shell like icon Then suddenly it changed to the correct E-with-pen. (I guess restarting gnome would have done it) Now I find that png file in the (first) gnome directory with (other) svg files