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Jackie Lin
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 2:47 am    Post subject: can not find emacs icon in K-menu Reply with quote

hello,there.
I can not find the emacs item in the plasma start menu after I emerged app-editors/emacs.
how to solve it? could anyone help me? thanks!
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 6:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

emacs desktop file is located in /usr/share/emacs/<your_version>/etc/emacs.desktop and is not actually found.
One solution is copy this file in ~/.local/share/applications/
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hi. the emacs.desktop file is in /usr/share/emacs/26.1/etc folder.
but there is no icon until i copied it to .local/share/applications.
Code:

jerry@notebook ~ $ ls /usr/share/emacs/26.1/etc/
AUTHORS          DEVEL.HUMOR        emacs.desktop  forms         grep.txt   MH-E-NEWS   NEWS.21   NXML-NEWS            ps-prin1.ps       spook.lines      WHY-FREE
CALC-NEWS        DISTRIB            emacs.icon     FTP           HELLO      MORE.STUFF  NEWS.22   ORDERS               publicsuffix.txt  srecode          yow.lines
CENSORSHIP       DOC                emacs.service  future-bug    HISTORY    NEWS        NEWS.23   org                  README            TERMS
charsets         e                  enriched.txt   GNU           images     NEWS.1-17   NEWS.24   ORG-NEWS             refcards          THE-GNU-PROJECT
compilation.txt  edt-user.el        ERC-NEWS       gnus          JOKES      NEWS.18     NEWS.25   package-keyring.gpg  rgb.txt           themes
COPYING          emacs.appdata.xml  ETAGS.EBNF     GNUS-NEWS     LINUX-GNU  NEWS.19     NEXTSTEP  PROBLEMS             schema            TODO
DEBUG            emacs-buffer.gdb   ETAGS.README   gnus-tut.txt  MACHINES   NEWS.20     nxml      ps-prin0.ps          ses-example.ses   tutorials


is it normal?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 8:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, fedeliallalinea.
I deteled ./local/share/applications/emacs.desktop. and chmod 755 /usr/share/applications/emacs*. it is fixed.
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