I forgot to mention that I tried that too. It works. It prints Icon theme "gnome" not found. Icon theme "gnome" not found. Icon theme "gnome" not found.
... but opens the requested document in a PDF viewer. It's only when I try TeX-documentation-texdoc that I have the problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 15:52 David Kastrup wrote: > Greg Bognar via General discussion about AUCTeX <auctex@gnu.org> writes: > > Hi, > > > > When I run `TeX-documentation-texdoc' (from the menu or with C-c ?), nothing > > happens. The mouse pointer does turn into busy, but it stops after a while. > > Nothing is written to *Messages* or to .xsession-errors. > > > > The texdoc command works from the terminal, opening a PDF viewer with the > > requested document. > > > > I'm not sure whether this is an AUCTeX, Emacs, or window manager issue. Any > > ideas how I could find out what the problem is? > > Try M-x shell RET and run texdoc from _that_ command line. That should at > least carry around some of the environment that TeX-documentation-texdoc is > working with. If it fails, you'll probably get some info in the Emacs buffer > used as terminal. > > -- > David Kastrup