Chong Yidong wrote:
> Sounds like bug #505, a bug with Debian's font packaging.
>
> What do the following commands give?
>
> $ xlsfonts *monospace*
> $ xlsfonts -ll *monospace*
>   

See the attached file.


> Also, does the following patch give better results?
>
> *** trunk/src/xfns.c.~1.727.~	2008-10-19 23:52:58.000000000 -0400
> --- trunk/src/xfns.c	2008-10-24 02:57:56.000000000 -0400
> ***************
> *** 3066,3071 ****
> --- 3066,3072 ----
>   	= {
>   #ifdef HAVE_XFT
>   	    /* This will find the normal Xft font.  */
> + 	    "DejaVu Sans Mono-12",
>    	    "monospace-12",
>   #endif
>   	    "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1",
>   

Well, I got an error during make, see it:

$ rm -rf emacs
$ cvs -z3 -d:ext:viniciusjl@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs
$ cd emacs
$ # edit src/xfns.c
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/download/emacs
$ make bootstrap
[ ... skip lot of messages ... ]
Loading /home/vinicius/work/emacs/lisp/faces.el (source)...
Loading /home/vinicius/work/emacs/lisp/minibuffer.el (source)...
Loading /home/vinicius/work/emacs/lisp/button.el (source)...
Loading /home/vinicius/work/emacs/lisp/startup.el (source)...
Creating directory: Permission denied, /.emacs.d
make[2]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Error 255
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/vinicius/work/emacs/src'
make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/vinicius/work/emacs'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
$