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: I can't visualize any file in the Emacs Date: 30 Jan 2007 06:56:14 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1170168974.485688.48740@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170172230 4960 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2007 15:50:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:50:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 30 16:50:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HBv60-0006LV-9Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:40:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBv5z-0005aS-OU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.213 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1170168993 5789 127.0.0.1 (30 Jan 2007 14:56:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:56:33 +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: j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.213; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145153 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:40761 Archived-At: On Jan 29, 1:57 pm, Amanda Ortega wrote: > Hi, I'm starting to use Emacs, but I can't visualize any file. I only can see > small squares where it would have to be chars (letters, numbers, etc). I > don't know what to do. Do I have to install any other package? I have > installed these packages until now: > > emacs21 > emacs21-bin-common > emacs21-common > emacsen-common Normally Emacs should work out of the box without doing this for any sensible character-set. But there seems to be a bug in the packaging of some distros, especially Debian and Ubuntu. I think that you are seeing the effects of this bug, though I can't be sure. 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