>There are quite a lot of details missing from the bug report. In the >first place, what font is Emacs using? Type > M-x describe-face RET default RET This prints the following: Face: default (sample) (customize this face) Documentation: Basic default face. Defined in `faces.el'. Family: nimbus mono l Foundry: urw Width: normal Height: 129 Weight: normal Slant: normal Foreground: #e0dedb Background: #201f1f Underline: nil Overline: nil Strike-through: nil Box: nil Inverse: nil Stipple: nil Font: # Fontset: -urw-nimbus mono l-regular-r-normal--17-*-100-100-p-100-fontset-startup Inherit: nil In Emacs 23 (which works well) this looks like: Face: default (sample) (customize this face) Documentation: Basic default face. Family: fixed Foundry: misc Width: normal Height: 99 Weight: normal Slant: normal Foreground: Grey Background: Grey15 Underline: nil Overline: nil Strike-through: nil Box: nil Inverse: nil Stipple: nil Font: # Fontset: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-*-75-75-c-80-fontset-auto1 Inherit: nil Nimbus is indeed a font installed on my system (screenshot attached). But it has bold face (you can see it on the screenshot). Though the font which I was referring to as "not installed myself" is the other one called "variable-pitch" it is used in the "welcome" buffer. And below is what describe-face tells me about it: Face: variable-pitch (sample) (customize this face) Documentation: The basic variable-pitch face. Defined in `faces.el'. Family: Sans Serif Foundry: unspecified Width: unspecified Height: unspecified Weight: unspecified Slant: unspecified Foreground: unspecified Background: unspecified Underline: unspecified Overline: unspecified Strike-through: unspecified Box: unspecified Inverse: unspecified Stipple: unspecified Font: unspecified Fontset: unspecified Inherit: unspecified In Emacs 23 this looks like: Face: variable-pitch (sample) (customize this face) Documentation: The basic variable-pitch face. Family: helv Foundry: unspecified Width: unspecified Height: unspecified Weight: unspecified Slant: unspecified Foreground: unspecified Background: unspecified Underline: unspecified Overline: unspecified Strike-through: unspecified Box: unspecified Inverse: unspecified Stipple: unspecified Font: unspecified Fontset: unspecified Inherit: unspecified > Also, are you specifying the font in your Emacs init file (via face > customization), or in .Xresources? I started Emacs with -q, suppose that loads it w/o my .emacs settings. I don't even have a ~/.Xresources, so, I guess, that's not an option either, or can it somehow look for another Xresources? If yes, then where? > And is Emacs compiled with GSettings > and -lfreetype support (these should be reported in the messages near > the output of ./configure)? 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Where should the build process find the source code? /home/wvxvw/projects/emacs-sources/emacs What operating system file should Emacs use? s/gnu-linux.h What compiler should emacs be built with? gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.) Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers? no Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation? no What window system should Emacs use? x11 What toolkit should Emacs use? LUCID Where do we find X Windows header files? Standard dirs Where do we find X Windows libraries? Standard dirs Does Emacs use -lXaw3d? no Does Emacs use -lXpm? yes Does Emacs use -ljpeg? yes Does Emacs use -ltiff? yes Does Emacs use a gif library? yes -lgif Does Emacs use -lpng? yes Does Emacs use -lrsvg-2? no Does Emacs use imagemagick? no Does Emacs use -lgpm? no Does Emacs use -ldbus? no Does Emacs use -lgconf? no Does Emacs use GSettings? no Does Emacs use -lselinux? no Does Emacs use -lgnutls? no Does Emacs use -lxml2? no Does Emacs use -lfreetype? no Does Emacs use -lm17n-flt? no Does Emacs use -lotf? no Does Emacs use -lxft? no Does Emacs use toolkit scroll bars? yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating lib/Makefile config.status: creating lib-src/Makefile config.status: creating oldXMenu/Makefile config.status: creating doc/emacs/Makefile config.status: creating doc/misc/Makefile config.status: creating doc/lispintro/Makefile config.status: creating doc/lispref/Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating lwlib/Makefile config.status: creating lisp/Makefile config.status: creating leim/Makefile config.status: creating test/automated/Makefile config.status: creating admin/unidata/Makefile config.status: creating src/config.h config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing mkdirs commands config.status: executing epaths commands creating src/epaths.h [ -r "/home/wvxvw/projects/emacs-sources/emacs/src/config.in" ] || ( cd /home/wvxvw/projects/emacs-sources/emacs && autoheader ) config.status: executing gdbinit commands To spare you the reading, both GSettings and -lfreetype are "no", but the configuration script didn't ask me to install libfreetype although it is installed: $ whereis libfreetype libfreetype: /usr/lib/libfreetype.a /usr/lib/libfreetype.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.la /usr/lib64/libfreetype.a /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so /usr/lib64/libfreetype.la I'm not sure what GSettings is, but it sounds like some Gnome thing (the system where I'm running into problem is KDE). Best. Oleg