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 11:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: 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 1273001107 19621 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 19:25:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 19:25:07 +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 21:25:05 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 1O9Njp-0006Cf-OG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 21:25:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38313 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Njp-0006na-1A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 15:25:01 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u31g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.4.144 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1269975434 1525 127.0.0.1 (30 Mar 2010 18:57:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:57:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u31g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.4.144; 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:177609 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:73088 Archived-At: 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 yo= u > =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