[SOLVED] emacs - gtkfilechooser

Question

All of a sudden I am getting a very strange message on opening files for emacs.
(emacs:4970): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to read filechooser settings from
"/home/wpt/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini": Permission denied
I installed the templates package for emacs, and originally if I changed the mode to "latex-mode" the appropriate item would show up in the file list (new file using template). That no longer happens. If I open emacs and enter the name of a stub.tex file I created(which is empty), the template message does not appear.
If I open emacs from a terminal with the stub.tex file, the template message does appear in the file menu, but the above Gtk-WARNING message is displayed.
If this is a permission issue, how do I change it?
EDIT: Mysteriously, the error message has disappeared. BUT I still cannot access the menu item: "New File Using Template" from within emacs -- only if I load the empty stub.tex file from the command line or the pcman file manager.
EDIT: Spoke too soon. error message is back.
EDIT: There are two items that have to be added to ~/.emacs to make the template package work: (1) require 'template, and (2) template-initialize. I simply moved both to the bottom of the ~/.emacs file, and the error was corrected. Now the listing in the File menu shows: "New File Using Template" upon opening.
Last edited by bt (2010-01-28 13:29:23)

Answer 1

Yeah I figured that out when I got back home. It was my own fault for running emacs from Run Program in xfce instead of from the Terminal.
However, I've installed that package along with the 75dpi one and it still doesn't work. I even ran fc-cache again just to be sure. Weird.
The error is "Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct" So perhaps it's a fontconfig problem. Both fontconfig and freetype2 as up-to-date. Hmm.
[EDIT] I restared X and everything worked. Thanks. I've updated the wiki with the information. I'll send a diff to the maintainer at some point; the PKGBUILD should really tell the user that he/she needs to install these fonts if using X windows
Last edited by Weeks (2007-05-05 23:32:05)