From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs does not work with new Dell Display Date: 14 Nov 2006 06:43:16 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1163515396.147162.180320@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <87lkmemdpv.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163518846 24065 80.91.229.2 (14 Nov 2006 15:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:40:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 14 16:40:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gk0Od-0003GE-9D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:40:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gk0Oc-0005ZJ-8u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:40:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.244.62.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1163515402 14494 127.0.0.1 (14 Nov 2006 14:43:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:43:22 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87lkmemdpv.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF1ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.244.62.65; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143099 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38718 Archived-At: Tim X wrote: > "Johs" writes: > > > I have just changed to a Dell 2007 WFP 20" widescreen display, but when I > > try to open emacs in Ubuntu it looks like this: > > > > http://www.tulsoba.com/pictures/pic1.png > > > > http://www.tulsoba.com/pictures/pic2.png > > > > I have tried to remove my .emacs file but it does not help. Is emacs limited > > to work with certain displays? > > > > > > If your running under X, I doubt it is a problem with emacs not being > able to display on a wide screen as I think from the emacs > perspective, it is unaware of that level of physical information (i.e. > this type of issue is handled by the X server). > > The square boxes are usually a sign emacs is having trouble finding > the right fonts. Try other fonts and see if you get a similar problem. > > FWIW I'm running a 24 inch Dell wide screen with absolutely no > problems with either emacs 21 or emacs 22. I'm running under Debian - > in fact, I have this configuration on two different systems (at home > and at work) with two different video cards (one intel, one ati) and > previously had it working with a gforce2. I've used various different > fonts - courier, lucidatypwriter, fixed etc. On one system, I'm > running a font server, but on the other I'm just running with a > fontpath in the xorg.conf file. > This problem is the interaction of Emacs and X.org config. It can affect Debian and Ubuntu. See the Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352811 and the Ubuntu bug https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/53038. There has been quite a lot of discussion about where to best fix it. See the threads for details. It affects every part of X on the relevant distributions. Type "xfontsel" to see what I mean. The problem is fonts used to be in /usr/share/X11/fonts/ now they are in /usr/share/fonts/X11/, the config file xorg.conf was not updated to reflect this change. Dave Love wrote a patch to fix it: http://librarian.launchpad.net/4860914/diff