From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: fatal font problem with emacs Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:21:09 +0200 Message-ID: <84C81B51-7857-4445-868C-858A18B51369@Web.DE> References: <1161483959.649357.321060@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1161568106.026124.25630@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <1161764097.465879.311440@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161768138 25959 80.91.229.2 (25 Oct 2006 09:22:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:22:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 25 11:22:07 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcexJ-0004je-P0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:21:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcexJ-0002Am-1z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:21:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gcewn-00023M-Gl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:21:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gcewj-0001xg-9N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:21:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gcewi-0001xG-Fm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:21:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.234] (helo=fmmailgate03.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gcewh-0000Tr-Rb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:21:12 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280C02E082FE; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:21:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [87.193.30.142] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1Gcewg-00017k-00; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:21:11 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1161764097.465879.311440@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: "BillJosephson" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de 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:38266 Archived-At: Am 25.10.2006 um 10:14 schrieb BillJosephson: > I don't see .xinitrc. But, I don't know what to do with all this. > Where > to go next, so to speak. You have somewhere a template for ~/.xinitrc on your system, maybe in /etc/X11/xinit ... When the X server is launched it looks for ~/.xinitrc. If the file exists it executes it. By this means you can correct and extend the font path, set other time constants or repeat rates or acceleration for keyboard or mouse, launch useful X clients and particularly choose a Window Manager. The UNIX help system, i.e. the man and apropos (or man -k) commands, can explain more. More resources can be found on the Internet. If you don't want to learn so much, you can check the look of a font in X11 with xfd (or xfontsel) and then invoke GNU Emacs with 'emacs - fn &'. Or you simply filter the output of xlsfonts. This way you can find whether the fonts reported exist on your system. If they don't, you can select another one to pass on the command line. -- Greetings Pete "A mathematician is a machine that turns coffee into theorems."