writes: > I'm using a brand new installation of Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Cinnamon), and I'm using Guix as my package manager as usual. > > My problem occurs in Emacs, Audacity, and FileZilla. When I'm using > the Mint-Y or X themes, the menu bar (where File, Edit, Options, and > Help are) becomes extremely squished together, leaving no padding to > either side of the text. > (see the screenshot at https://functional.cafe/@MutoShack/100012178677070459 ) > > This issue does not occur in GIMP, VLC, or LMMS. > The Adwaita theme works just fine, so I was wondering if there are any environment variables I need to set? Thank you in advance. This looks similar to the following issue: "Incorrect Emacs UI on foreign distro (Ubuntu)" https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-05/msg00069.html What is the value of your XDG_DATA_DIRS? Does Emacs load correctly if you start it from GNOME Terminal with the following command? env -u XDG_DATA_DIRS emacs -- Chris