From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs font problem Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:17:51 -0400 Message-ID: <435171FF.7020905@mail.mcgill.ca> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129411134 11488 80.91.229.2 (15 Oct 2005 21:18:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 15 23:18:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQtPe-0000ro-Gn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:17:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQtPd-0006GO-W2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EQtPS-0006GD-PN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EQtPR-0006Fp-75 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQtPR-0006Fm-4D for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:17:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.166] (helo=simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EQtPR-0008Hm-1q for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:17:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.2.11] ([67.68.192.229]) by simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20051015211739.SMOJ28065.simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@[192.168.2.11]> for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:17:39 -0400 User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050817) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: 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:30248 Archived-At: My apologies. I figured out the problem, and it was indeed with my X window set-up and not with Emacs. Tyler Tyler wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is an emacs problem or a debian problem. I've just > installed Sarge, and it all seems to be working fine, except, when I > open emacs all the text in the buffers appears as empty rectangles. I'm > assuming this is a font problem of some sort, but I'm not sure if the > problem is in my Debian setup or with the Emacs installation. Other > editors appear to work fine. The X configuration file I'm using is cut > and pasted from a working installation of Mepis on the same machine, as > the autoconfiguration during the Sarge install failed. Any suggestions > would be welcome! > > Thanks, > > Tyler > >