From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs does not work with new Dell Display Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:09:48 +1100 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87lkmemdpv.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163508035 13541 80.91.229.2 (14 Nov 2006 12:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 14 13:40:34 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 1GjxaT-0003vs-QM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:40:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjxaS-0004Uc-Rr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:40:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.freenet.de!feeder.news-service.com!feeder2.cambrium.nl!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!138.199.65.86.MISMATCH!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-04!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fn4slWcFb1rnl23HX/Xr9A9fkGQ= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 36 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143089 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38707 Archived-At: "Johs" writes: > I have just changed to a Dell 2007 WFP 20" widescreen display, but when I > try to open emacs in Ubuntu it looks like this: > > http://www.tulsoba.com/pictures/pic1.png > > http://www.tulsoba.com/pictures/pic2.png > > I have tried to remove my .emacs file but it does not help. Is emacs limited > to work with certain displays? > > If your running under X, I doubt it is a problem with emacs not being able to display on a wide screen as I think from the emacs perspective, it is unaware of that level of physical information (i.e. this type of issue is handled by the X server). The square boxes are usually a sign emacs is having trouble finding the right fonts. Try other fonts and see if you get a similar problem. FWIW I'm running a 24 inch Dell wide screen with absolutely no problems with either emacs 21 or emacs 22. I'm running under Debian - in fact, I have this configuration on two different systems (at home and at work) with two different video cards (one intel, one ati) and previously had it working with a gforce2. I've used various different fonts - courier, lucidatypwriter, fixed etc. On one system, I'm running a font server, but on the other I'm just running with a fontpath in the xorg.conf file. hth Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au