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emacs23 package

emacs/gui does not start when .gtkrc-20 file present

Bug #1153318 reported by mokabar on 2013-03-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1142213: emacs23/24 and other GTK applications do not start when run in Kubuntu 13.04 with oxygen-gtk theme enabled. Edit Remove

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	emacs23 (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

after upgrading one of my machines from 12.10 to 13.04, emacs does not start any more, unless i specify -nw to launch in console mode. the emacs window appears, but without any content.

investigating, it seems to be related to the ~/.gktrc-2.0 file: when removing this, emacs starts fine. the file seems to be written by the kde's systemsettings, its content is:

`
include "/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
gtk-theme-name="oxygen-gtk"
`

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-04-25:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in emacs23 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Michael Hirsch (mdhirsch) wrote on 2013-09-23:

My machine works fine with a ~/.gktrc-2.0 file, but emacs will not open with a .gtkrc-2.0-kde4 file. But otherwise the symptoms are identical. This is probably related to the fact that I use KDE and not Gnome.