Hi, The newest CVS Emacs chooses a different font when started with the -Q option. Meanwhile, the distances between characters become extremely larger. I have configured to let the xft backend take precedence over the x backend by adding "Emacs*FontBackend: xft, x" into ~/.Xresources. I'm not sure if this is my configuration problem (may or may not be Emacs related configuration) or not. The logs both before and after the checkout have been attached. What should I do fix this weird behavior? Thanks. Regards, Guanpeng Xu _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us