I'm affected by this bug too. This is not exactly a fix, more of a brush under the carpet: I realised that I had absolutely no use for the Toolbar, as all of the functions are easily accessible in the menu bar right above it (or by keyboard shortcuts, of course). So I simply got rid of the Toolbar, which not only made the annoying empty space go away, but also, in doing so, gave more more screen space for editing.
To remove the Toolbar, simply go to the menu Options->Show/Hide->Tool- bar and select None. Then Options->Save Options to make this change persist between sessions. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to emacs24 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1623585 Title: Toolbar is blank Status in emacs24 package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in emacs24 package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: Emacs 24.5+1-6ubuntu1 in xenial does not display the gtk toolbar correctly. It is just an empty grey space. This appears to be the same issue as https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48862 which required cherry-picking an upstream commit: https://github.com/emacs- mirror/emacs/commit/3f4c6d52d345999938bc2d4a53246af4c61ef176 I also tried upgrading to the yakkety packages 24.5+1-6ubuntu3 and libpng16-16, but this did not correct the issue. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs24/+bug/1623585/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
