missing fonts?

missing fonts?

[rahed]

Hello,

I installed package emacs 22 on Solaris.
After running it warns:

Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

Do I have to set something?


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Radek

Re: missing fonts?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.08.2007 um 15:56 schrieb rahed:

> Do I have to set something?

Launch GNU Emacs with --debug-init to get a clearer information of  
what failed in *Backtrace* buffer.

Coud be Solaris <whatsoever> is not providing some fonts because  
either some package was not installed or you are using a faulty X11  
font path value. 'xset q' will print its value. Then check whether  
there are more directories that contain usable fonts (for example the  
Lucida fonts in Java!). Prepare these directories with mkfontdir/ 
mkfontscale, add these directories to your font path (~/.xinitrc is  
good place) and either relaunch X11 or correct font path in some  
shell and run 'xset fp rehash'. Then see again what GNU Emacs is  
telling you.

Check also which packages you haven't installed yet.

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Re: missing fonts?

[rahed]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Launch GNU Emacs with --debug-init to get a clearer information of
> what failed in *Backtrace* buffer.

There is no *Backtrace* buffer after launching Emacs in a debugging
mode. Only *Scratch* and *Messages*.

> Coud be Solaris <whatsoever> is not providing some fonts because
> either some package was not installed or you are using a faulty X11
> font path value. 'xset q' will print its value. Then check whether
> there are more directories that contain usable fonts (for example the
> Lucida fonts in Java!). Prepare these directories with mkfontdir/
> mkfontscale, add these directories to your font path (~/.xinitrc is
> good place) and either relaunch X11 or correct font path in some
> shell and run 'xset fp rehash'. Then see again what GNU Emacs is
> telling you.

I checked font paths with another boxes which run Emacs smoothly and see
no differences.

> Check also which packages you haven't installed yet.

I hope I installed all as recommended at sunfreeware. Which package
should be checked regarding this error?

Thanks.

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Radek

Re: missing fonts?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 16.08.2007 um 10:24 schrieb rahed:

> I checked font paths with another boxes which run Emacs smoothly  
> and see
> no differences.

And the contents of the directories in font path? Is an all these  
boxes the same operating system  and the same version of GNU Emacs  
running? Do they all have the same packages installed?

>
>> Check also which packages you haven't installed yet.
>
> I hope I installed all as recommended at sunfreeware. Which package
> should be checked regarding this error?
>

I don't know. Sun is changing the package names and I don't want to  
know by heart for every Solaris version the set of package names.

Besides, the question is, what which purpose sunfreeware was or still  
is recommending the packages ...

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