From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Monospace font bug?
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:32:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxmllas3.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
I need some help to track down what may or may not be a distribution
bug.
When compiled with XFT, Emacs tries a default font named "monospace-12".
In Fontconfig, this is usually aliased to a font like DejaVu Sans Mono.
But some systems (Debian unstable?) seem to have a font actually named
Monospace, and Emacs then uses this font. This font is somehow buggy:
in bug#505, the X server can't retrieve the font information, and in
bug#1219 it displays in a very fugly manner.
I don't know whether is is a distribution bug, or a common situation
that we need to cope with.
Could those of you running on GNU/Linux please try to do
~ $ xlsfonts *monospace*
And see if anything is returned? For me, this gives
xlsfonts: pattern "*monospace*" unmatched
but the people who've encountered problems do see fonts like
-unknown-monospace-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
In bug#505, this font was registered in
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/fonts.dir
but there's no clue about where it came from.
next reply other threads:[~2008-10-25 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-25 1:32 Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-10-25 3:08 ` Monospace font bug? David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-25 4:17 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-25 4:44 ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-25 5:55 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-25 17:22 ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-25 18:22 ` Stefan Monnier
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