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From: neumann@lostwebsite.net (François-Denis Gonthier)
Subject: Re: Emacs does not work with new Dell Display
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:09:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mz6u7s0y.fsf@lostwebsite.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ejacvi$brc$1@news.net.uni-c.dk

>>>>> "Johs" == Johs  <gjh@sdfsf.com> writes:

    Johs> I have just changed to a Dell 2007 WFP 20" widescreen
    Johs> display, but when I try to open emacs in Ubuntu it looks
    Johs> like this:

    Johs> http://www.tulsoba.com/pictures/pic1.png

    Johs> http://www.tulsoba.com/pictures/pic2.png

    Johs> I have tried to remove my .emacs file but it does not
    Johs> help. Is emacs limited to work with certain displays?

Your display is not to blame.  There is a bug in the Emacs21 package
in Debian and Ubuntu.  I don't know the exact solution to your problem
but it's in there:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352811

Don't be fooled by the 'unreproducible' tag.  I've heard many people
have had that problem

F-D

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-14  1:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-13 18:19 Emacs does not work with new Dell Display Johs
2006-11-13 18:32 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-11-14  1:09 ` François-Denis Gonthier [this message]
2006-11-14 12:09 ` Tim X
2006-11-14 14:43   ` Robert Thorpe

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