X and emacs bug

X and emacs bug

[Bruce Park]

Dear emacs subscribers,

I'm having some problems with emacs and X that's driving me insane. 
Currenty, I don't know which one is causing the problem so I thought I'd ask 
the subscribers what they think. Before I describe the problem, I'd like to 
state that I'm running debian linux with xfree86 4.1.0-16.
The problem is regaring emacs, X, and maybe Java(Sun rpm converted to deb). 
Once a Java window is launched such as: 
http://rplaca.cs.qc.edu/~bpark/xwin.jpg, my emacs window is distorted.
Here is the normal pic: http://rplaca.cs.qc.edu/~bpark/normal.jpg
Here is the weird pic: http://rplaca.cs.qc.edu/~bpark/weird.gif
If you look at the weird picture, I drew arrows indicating that the space 
between these arrows are not normal. In fact, it looks like they are double 
height. Take a look at the cursor on the left top corner and you'll see 
this.
There are other cases where this happens but this is the only case that 
maintains a consistency. As far as I can remember, this was happening far 
before Java was ever installed on my system.
Now, this a very odd problem and I don't know if the source of the problem 
is caused by emacs fonts or X windows. Currently I'm using .Xresources file 
to manipulate emacs font.
What I need to know is the source of this problem. I highly doubt this is 
caused by Java since I've seen this happen at other times. Any ideas or 
suggestion will be highly appreciated.

bp


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Re: X and emacs bug

[Kai Großjohann]

[[ Strange inter-line spacing after starting Java. ]]

Maybe you could check your font path.  "xset q" tells it.  Maybe
Emacs finds a different font under the same fontspec.  Maybe you can
work around it by explicitly specifying all fields in the Emacs font
name, without using "*".
-- 
A turnip curses Elvis

Re: X and emacs bug

[Sven Utcke]

"Bruce Park" <bpark79@hotmail.com> writes:

> deb). Once a Java window is launched such as:
> http://rplaca.cs.qc.edu/~bpark/xwin.jpg, my emacs window is distorted.
> Here is the normal pic: http://rplaca.cs.qc.edu/~bpark/normal.jpg
> Here is the weird pic: http://rplaca.cs.qc.edu/~bpark/weird.gif

This is a well known bug in Emacs 20.x (the reason for which I forgot)
and afaik not present in 21.x, which is a much better editor in many
respects anyway, except for the fact that it insists on linking
against libjpeg etc. even when run with -nw...

Sven
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Re: X and emacs bug

[Kevin Rodgers]

Sven Utcke wrote:

> This is a well known bug in Emacs 20.x (the reason for which I forgot)
> and afaik not present in 21.x, which is a much better editor in many
> respects anyway, except for the fact that it insists on linking
> against libjpeg etc. even when run with -nw...

It's the same emacs executable whether it's run with the -nw option or not,

so all the libraries have to be present.

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Re: X and emacs bug

[Sven Utcke]

Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com> writes:

> Sven Utcke wrote:
> 
> > This is a well known bug in Emacs 20.x (the reason for which I forgot)
> > and afaik not present in 21.x, which is a much better editor in many
> > respects anyway, except for the fact that it insists on linking
> > against libjpeg etc. even when run with -nw...
> 
> It's the same emacs executable whether it's run with the -nw option or not,
> 
> so all the libraries have to be present.

Isn't it possible, with dynamic libraries, to dynamically load only
the ones actually needed?  At least I thought it was, but might be
completely wrong...

Sven

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