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There is a large blank space between the top of the buffer and the bottom of the menu-bar in my Emacs 24 on Ubunutu 16.10 that doesn't want to go away. I've tried Googling but can't really find anything to help, would appreciate some ideas! Screenshot included:

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Drew
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KHekkus
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    What you mean with `toolbar` is actually the `menu-bar`. I think the large blank space is the real `tool-bar` but maybe your emacs is missing the icons for the tool-bar. You can test whether the large blank space is the tool-bar by switching off Options -> Show/Hide -> Tool-bar. – Tobias Mar 30 '17 at 10:26
  • Hah. You are right. `(tool-bar-mode -1)` is now in my init.el. Thank you. – KHekkus Mar 30 '17 at 11:05
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    @Tobias: Please consider posting that as an answer, which can then be accepted by OP. – Drew Mar 30 '17 at 14:44

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For marking this question as done I cite my comment below the question as an answer here:

What you mean with toolbar is actually the menu-bar. I think the large blank space is the real tool-bar but maybe your emacs is missing the icons for the tool-bar. You can test whether the large blank space is the tool-bar by switching off Options -> Show/Hide -> Tool-bar

The original poster added that the assumption from the comment is right and that he switches the tool-bar off by adding (tool-bar-mode -1) to his init file.

The remaining question would be why the tool-bar remains empty. This is an error. There should be at least buttons for find-file, menu-find-file-existing, dired, kill-buffer, and some more buttons for editing text.

Update: Note, that this is a known problem with emacs24 under Ubuntu 16.10. There already exists a bug report with a workaround for it at launchpad.

Tobias
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