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 corrupted Date: 20 Dec 2006 11:03:51 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1166641431.927357.120580@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166643670 14833 80.91.229.10 (20 Dec 2006 19:41:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:41:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 20 20:41:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gx7JG-00030o-Ge for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:41:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gx7JF-0004cy-UZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:41:02 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166641438 10715 127.0.0.1 (20 Dec 2006 19:03:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:03:58 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: 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 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144177 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:39780 Archived-At: DigitalDingo wrote: > A couple of days ago I tried to open both Emacs and Maple using the Deskbar > in Ubuntu with the command "emacs & xmaple". Well, it was a try - and it > didn't work either - and now emacs seems to have been corrupted. Much of the > text is just squares and the menu bar has an ugly large font as you can see > on the screen shots. Also, when I hover the pointer over something, it > should bring up a description, but it just shows squares. > I don't use an .emacs file. > > Does anyone know how to correct this? > > http://www.nabble.com/file/4959/emacs1.png > http://www.nabble.com/file/4960/emacs2.png > http://www.nabble.com/file/4961/emacs3.png This isn't corruption of Emacs itself, it's an Ubuntu bug AFAIK. >>From a previous post of mine.... 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