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 corrupted Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:02:31 +1100 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87tzzpxjvc.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166686835 11996 80.91.229.10 (21 Dec 2006 07:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 21 08:40:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GxIXT-0005Vs-VM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:40:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxIXT-0000yw-9R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:40:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!feeder.news-service.com!138.199.65.86.MISMATCH!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-05!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/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qe6LnRKWbHwHPs6q5iboCZCujRI= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 31 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144189 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:39792 Archived-At: DigitalDingo writes: > A couple of days ago I tried to open both Emacs and Maple using the Deskbar > in Ubuntu with the command “emacs & xmaple”. Well, it was a try – and it > didn't work either – and now emacs seems to have been corrupted. Much of the > text is just squares and the menu bar has an ugly large font as you can see > on the screen shots. Also, when I hover the pointer over something, it > should bring up a description, but it just shows squares. > I don't use an .emacs file. > > Does anyone know how to correct this? > > http://www.nabble.com/file/4959/emacs1.png > http://www.nabble.com/file/4960/emacs2.png > http://www.nabble.com/file/4961/emacs3.png > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Emacs-corrupted-tf2859579.html#a7989454 > Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > Square boxes instead of characters is usually a sign emacs cannot find the fonts it is looking for. If your running under X, make sure you have the required fonts installed. If your X uses a font server, make sure it is running and you can query it. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au