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From: peter.lingsberg@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: emacs doesn't show letters in RHEL6.6
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 04:29:18 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5827240-b6ed-4c28-bfdf-12ff701be705@googlegroups.com> (raw)

I'm using RHEL6.6 but emacs is behaving very strange. Letters disappear (doesn't show) while I write or scroll. I have to do Ctrl-L to refresh to see the letters. Extremely annoying and I can hardly use emacs anymore. Version on emacs is 1:23.1-25.el6. I downloaded a newer emacs and compiled it, but the problem persists. Could it have something to do with X or gdm?

I have been running RHEL6.4 for a couple of years and had no problem with emacs there.

Snapshot of how it looks when I write or just move around with the cursor. Note that all spaces actually have chars:

http://ladda-upp.se/files/2016/b177214.jpg

If I then reload page with Ctrl-L, the window looks like this. The characters are suddenly visible. 

http://ladda-upp.se/files/2016/b177216.jpg

But as soon as I start write or move cursor, the characters will be invisible again.

emacs -q, emacs -Q or changing fonts won't help. What to do??? I love emacs but I can't use it when it behaves like this...

I run RHEL6.6 out-of-the-box as a virtual machine in VMware. It is exactly the same environment as I had in RHEL6.4 and there were no problems with emacs there


             reply	other threads:[~2016-01-04 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-04 12:29 peter.lingsberg [this message]
2016-01-04 13:10 ` emacs doesn't show letters in RHEL6.6 Javier
2016-01-05  6:50   ` peter.lingsberg
2016-01-05 14:03     ` Javier

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