From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Monospace font bug? Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:32:28 -0400 Message-ID: <87fxmllas3.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224898362 24615 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2008 01:32:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:32:42 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 25 03:33:43 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KtY28-0003cB-DR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:33:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44113 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtY12-0002WA-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:32:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtY0x-0002TF-H8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtY0v-0002Ro-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50166 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtY0v-0002RU-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:32:25 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:57835) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KtY0v-0004JR-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:32:25 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 59C0A57E1A7; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:32:28 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104973 Archived-At: 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.