From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Display Recangular blocks instead of fonts Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 22:42:54 +0900 Message-ID: <87txlosfmp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <874ndpta6g.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369662219 13884 80.91.229.3 (27 May 2013 13:43:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 13:43:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Kumar, Amit" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Cloos Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 27 15:43:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ugxi3-0008Va-KK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 15:43:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54241 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ugxi3-0006p3-8b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 09:43:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41954) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ugxhh-0006of-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 09:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgxhZ-0004H5-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 09:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:60989) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgxhZ-0004EY-2t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 09:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94668970972; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:42:56 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5389E1A50C0; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:42:54 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159832 Archived-At: James Cloos writes: > >>>>> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull writes: > > SJT> I don't recall exactly how modern X servers handle server-side fonts. > > The majority of the current distributions default to installing the X > server with built-in support for the misc-fixed and cursor fonts and > with the font-path set to "built-ins" (to find those two). But I would think misc-fixed is somewhere in the list that the OP posted, and it should be able to handle the Emacs splash screen and most code (including the tags in SGML and TeX macros, as well as keywords in all common languages). So I'm still surprised at his results. > They expect everything to use client-side fonts. Indeed, upgrading to a fontconfig/Xrender-capable Emacs solved his problem.