Bug 80150 – no Emacs icon in the gnome-panel window list, even with ~/.Xresources

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description aethyr 2005-01-30 17:27:20 UTC]

Original discussion here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=40424

I cannot get Emacs to show its icon in the GNOME window panel.  I have not tried anywhere else, so I'm not sure if this is GNOME specific, Emacs specific, or Gentoo specific.

Basically, Emacs just shows the generic "new file" icon.

I read that you can set ~/.Xresources to make emacs show an icon, so that's what I did:

~/.Xresources:
emacs*bitmapIcon: on
Emacs*bitmapIcon: on

$ appres Emacs | grep -i icon
Emacs*bitmapIcon:       on

$ appres emacs | grep -i icon
emacs*bitmapIcon:       on

I do not know what else to try.  I'm not sure if this is an upstream bug, but I would appreciate anyone's knowledge of the situation :)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open emacs
2. see generic "new file" icon being used



Expected Results:  
Emacs should show an application-specific icon on the panel.

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.10-ck5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-ck5 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU                1400MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="no"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo
http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo
http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr dga dvd encode f77 fam font-server
foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib java jpeg
libg++ libwww mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls opengl oss pam pdflib perl
png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcpd
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Joe McCann (RETIRED) 2005-02-03 11:40:23 UTC]

The window list application just uses what ever icon the app has set to show in the top corner. This is an issue with emacs not using what ever the standard wm hint is for displaying an icon(_NET_WM_ICON_NAME I think)

[Comment 2 aethyr 2005-02-04 00:30:26 UTC]

Created attachment 50306 [details, diff]
Patch to make gtk2 emacs display an icon.

Here's a patch to fix the missing icon.  I will try to submit it upstream was
well.

[Comment 3 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) 2006-05-15 12:45:07 UTC]

Hi aethyr, how did the upstream patch sending go?  I'm hesitant to patch cvs pulls, so if this bug report can be resolved just by waiting on upstream...

[Comment 4 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) 2006-05-15 15:36:39 UTC]

xg_set_icon in src/xfns.c in emacs-cvs looks like it sets the wm icon.