Emacs Unity global app menu integration stopped working in 11.10

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Emacs' Unity global app menu integration stopped working when I upgraded to 11.10. Anyone know how to get it working?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 19 '14 at 12:08

It probably looks strange that I reply to such an old posting, but I also stumbled across this one when I looked for a solution how to integrate emacs into the Unity appmenu (global and locally integrated into window bar). So I dare to reply. Here are my two cents:

emacs 24 potentially integrates well with Unity, but it seems it is blacklisted by in a hardcoded way. There is a very simply way around this: to simple include it into the whitelist:

open dconf editor (search "dconf" in the Unity dash)
go to "com | canonical | unity-gtk-module"
add emacs24 to whitelist, e.g. ['emacs24']

This is it, at least for me it works perfectly (I am using Ubuntu 14.04 with the MacBuntu theme and locally integrated menus).

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 08 '14 at 18:01

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On Ubuntu 14.04, the following command does the job,

gsettings set com.canonical.unity-gtk-module whitelist "['emacs24']"

answered Dec 08 '14 at 18:01

akfoss

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 10 '11 at 19:22

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Submitted a bug report.

answered Nov 10 '11 at 19:22

Luke Hoersten

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Emacs Unity global app menu integration stopped working in 11.10

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