From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gaute Amundsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Strange font / frame size problem makes emacs unusable. Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:58:45 +0200 Message-ID: <1272275925.9877.541.camel@totiki> References: <1272142428.9877.47.camel@totiki> <0DD48519-2441-471E-AF01-6EF5CAA00644@Web.DE> <1272224582.9877.259.camel@totiki> <6F4C00BE-6848-4D61-A8BD-E087DB45C6D7@Web.DE> <1272266328.9877.481.camel@totiki> <9E279270-0A35-40A2-925E-CF7D608ABCE0@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272276042 6838 80.91.229.12 (26 Apr 2010 10:00:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 26 12:00:40 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6L7G-0007Iw-6S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:00:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39949 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O6L7F-0002MV-Cw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:00:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O6L5q-00029i-Fd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:59:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47670 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O6L5n-00028m-BB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6L5l-00071t-Ki for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.domeneshop.no ([194.63.248.54]:59921) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6L5l-00071F-FJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ti0189a340-dhcp0466.bb.online.no ([88.91.9.213] helo=[10.0.0.5]) by smtp.domeneshop.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1O6L5j-0001Q0-Oh; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:59:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <9E279270-0A35-40A2-925E-CF7D608ABCE0@Web.DE> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:72835 Archived-At: On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 11:36 +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 26.04.2010 um 09:18 schrieb Gaute Amundsen: > > > xlsfonts | grep misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-- > > *Don't* use the '--' when grep'ing for a font name! And it's so much > easier to > > xlsfonts -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*' Don't seem to make much of a difference to he results. Seems grep is smart enough to know it's part of the string.. > > > >> Since Ubuntu is Debian based > >> there are certainly some system init files. They're either missing > >> (because you did not install the packages) or they're for a different > >> version of GNU Emacs? Find and check them! > > > > None that I can spot. > > Can you suggest a string to grep /etc/ for? > > No, I am not using a Debian based Linux. Other suggestions: locate .el > | egrep '^/etc', Only hits are /etc/emacs/site-start* and /etc/emacs23/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc piping into "xargs -n 1 grep -i font" gives no hits. > launch GNU Emacs as > > emacs [...] -eval '(defadvice load (before debug-log activate) > (message "(Tipp von Kai G) Lade jetzt: %s" (ad-get-arg 0)))' Should the message show up in *Messages* ? Nothing there. Tried emacs --debug-init as well with no obvious sign of anything happening. > > > >> Some trace variant is able > >> to record files being opened. > > > > neither strace and lsof show anything resembling those names. > > > Lsof certainly is the wrong choice: it can only list files kept open > by some process at this moment, not those once temporarily opened and > now closed. And I am more familiar with DTrace in Solaris or Mac OS X... Right. ok. Thanks. Gaute