From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: peter.lingsberg@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs doesn't show letters in RHEL6.6 Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 04:29:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451913981 7089 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2016 13:26:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 13:26:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 04 14:26:21 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aG59Q-0005FS-N3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 14:26:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aG59P-0004Bq-Vn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 08:26:19 -0500 X-Received: by 10.66.139.137 with SMTP id qy9mr76814322pab.47.1451910559230; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 04:29:19 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.66.147 with SMTP id f19mr188840igt.8.1451910559200; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 04:29:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!mv3no25598836igc.0!news-out.google.com!l1ni3348igd.0!nntp.google.com!mv3no17979499igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=212.181.120.142; posting-account=8qesuAoAAACcvUbrcVN-nzp37kZxhNd0 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.181.120.142 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:29:19 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216310 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 08:26:10 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108603 Archived-At: I'm using RHEL6.6 but emacs is behaving very strange. Letters disappear (do= esn'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 e= macs 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 characte= rs are suddenly visible.=20 http://ladda-upp.se/files/2016/b177216.jpg But as soon as I start write or move cursor, the characters will be invisib= le 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 em= acs there