From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bebop52 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Scrambled Fonts: GNU Emacs 23.1.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Lucid Lynx Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 11:42:44 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <88efd8f2-1226-46f2-b293-b177f7ca1859@k1g2000prl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291947374 13693 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 02:16:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:16:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 03:16:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQsWo-00081o-3Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:16:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59676 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQsKM-0004vl-MC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:03:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k1g2000prl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.178.189.174 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1280688173 25998 127.0.0.1 (1 Aug 2010 18:42:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:42:53 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k1g2000prl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.178.189.174; posting-account=1raJjwoAAACOVrelXMwqJV35v15AszB- User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.125 Safari/533.4,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180259 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:09 -0500 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:77180 Archived-At: I use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Lucid Lynx (with gnome) and GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0) of 2010-03-29 on rothera, modified by Debian. Especially (but not exclusively) using the eshell, sometimes suddenly the emacs fonts become scrambled and unreadable. The problem remains when starting with emacs -q or emacs -Q. Until now the problem only shows up with emacs and no other software. It's getting better doing this: "" Try running these commands in the terminal, and then restart the X- server: Code: sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig "" After installing new software the problem comes back and I have to repeat fontconfig. But even without new installs after a while the problem shows up again. Whats the problem and how to solve it? Any ideas would be highly appreciated, since I only changed from XP to Ubuntu to concentrate on Emacs, and now Emacs doesn't work reliably.