Re: Path of tool-bar icons

[Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org>]

On 2018-04-11, Mick Bert <micbert75@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2018-04-11 13:39 GMT+02:00 Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org>:
>>
>> You can use strace to check, example output:
>>
>> $ strace emacs |& grep access | grep /images
>
> Nice idea. After few tests, I used the command:
>
>  trace /usr/bin/emacs-24.3|& grep '\.[bx]pm' | grep share |grep images
>
> I report here an extract of what I get:
>
>   stat("/usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/images/new.xpm",
> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3331, ...}) = 0
>   open("/usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/images/new.xpm", O_RDONLY) = 15
>   stat("/usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/images/new.xpm",
> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3331, ...}) = 0
>   open("/usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/images/new.xpm", O_RDONLY) = 15
>   open("/usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/images/new.xpm", O_RDONLY) = 15
>   stat("/usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/images/open.xpm",
> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4068, ...}) = 0
>   open("/usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/images/open.xpm", O_RDONLY) = 15
>   stat("/usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/images/open.xpm",
> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4068, ...}) = 0
>   open("/usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/images/open.xpm", O_RDONLY) = 15
>   open("/usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/images/open.xpm", O_RDONLY) = 15
>   ...
>
> Therefore it looks it is reading the images, so why isn't it displaying them?
> Any idea?

Can you display these images with an image viewer?  You can also try
starting emacs with -Q just for the case:

-Q, --quick
        Similar to "-q --no-site-file --no-splash".  Also, avoid
	processing X resources.

-- 
Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org>