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 12:05:52 +0200 Message-ID: <1272276352.9877.547.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> <20100426052858.GA4875@tomas> <1272265185.9877.461.camel@totiki> 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 1272276601 8921 80.91.229.12 (26 Apr 2010 10:10:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:10:01 +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 12:09:56 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 1O6LGG-00047J-8o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:09:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O6LGF-00071E-6J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:09:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O6LCW-0004TB-23 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:06:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54369 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O6LCS-0004Qm-42 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:06:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6LCP-0008EC-Kf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:05:59 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.domeneshop.no ([194.63.248.54]:32769) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6LCN-0008Dc-6X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:05:57 -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 1O6LCL-0003iA-V3; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:05:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: 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:72836 Archived-At: On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 11:44 +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 26.04.2010 um 08:59 schrieb Gaute Amundsen: > > > Searching backwards for ' = 3$' in less gets me this bit: > > > > socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 > > connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/tmp/.X11-unix/X0"}, 20) = 0 > > getpeername(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/tmp/.X11-unix/X0i\1"}, > > [20]) > > = 0 > > > This could stop GNU Emacs from contacting the X server to ask for a > list of available fonts (which could also be supplied by > libfontconfig, i.e., from the client side). Or, as you already > supposed, stop from asking for the screen's geometry. And when no > dimensions are received, defaults (like largest unsigned 16-bit > integer) are used... (could such a screen fit into my apartment?! > Electronic paper, rolled in when I got to bed?) > > Maybe there is some versions mismatch in the software you try to use. You think that sounds plausible.. good. I will pursue that angle some more then :) Hard to imagine a version missmatch appearing as a result copying /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda2 on other hardware, and booting. That's basically the only change I made... Gaute