Emacs problems

[Dieter Britz]

I have a new Ubuntu system and installed emacs. It has a
couple of problems.

Although when I do into customize, then faces, the top,
highlight face, claims to use a light goldenrod background
(which is my preference), when I select a bit of text, the
background is not coloured.

Secondly, after I exit from emacs, I get a string of these
warnings,

(emacs:11710): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'document-new'
for stock: Icon 'document-new' not present in theme Adwaita

(emacs:11710): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'document-open'
for stock: Icon 'document-open' not present in theme Adwaita


etc. What is this telling me? What can I do to fix it?

[N. Jackson]

Post by Dieter Britz
Although when I do into customize, then faces, the top,
highlight face, claims to use a light goldenrod background
(which is my preference), when I select a bit of text, the
background is not coloured.

For this you (also) need to customize the "region" face which is
the "[b]asic face for highlighting the region".

Post by Dieter Britz
Secondly, after I exit from emacs, I get a string of these
warnings,
(emacs:11710): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'document-new'
for stock: Icon 'document-new' not present in theme Adwaita
(emacs:11710): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'document-open'
for stock: Icon 'document-open' not present in theme Adwaita
etc. What is this telling me? What can I do to fix it?

M-x report-emacs-bug RET

You might be able to fix it in your configuration, but it's also
likely that Emacs's window management code is making an invalid
assumption that had best be fixed.

One way to avoid seeing the annoying messages is to start Emacs
from the GUI rather than from a terminal emulator.

N.