emacs and X problem

emacs and X problem

[Bruce Park]

Hello emacs users,

I really need to solve this since it's a real annoying bug. Before I start 
describing the problem, I'd like to state that I'm running emacs under 
debian3.0(stable).
When I use emacs(emacs20-7), the window and the fonts are distorted at 
times. After running some tests, I have figured out that this will occur 
only after launching applications that use X. Some examples are launching 
gkrellm and a java applet.

Normal pic:
http://rplaca.cs.qc.edu/~bpark/normal.jpg

Bug pic:
http://rplaca.cs.qc.edu/~bpark/weird.jpg

I haven't done anything to tweak X except for installing ttf and removing 
xfonts100-dpi. Would reinstalling X solve this problem? If so, what specific 
package(s) do I need to reinstall?
Any help or suggestion is very much appreciated.

bp






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Re: emacs and X problem

[Kai Großjohann]

"Bruce Park" <bpark79@hotmail.com> writes:

> When I use emacs(emacs20-7), the window and the fonts are distorted at
> times. After running some tests, I have figured out that this will
> occur only after launching applications that use X. Some examples are
> launching gkrellm and a java applet.

Your hunch about fonts might be right.  Depending on how you
specified the font for Emacs, changing the X font path might change
which font is found.

How about using a fully-qualified-font-name-with-lotsa-dashes?  Don't
use wildcards in it.
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Re: emacs and X problem

[Bruce Park]

>From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
>To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>Subject: Re: emacs and X problem
>Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:26:06 +0100
>
>Your hunch about fonts might be right.  Depending on how you
>specified the font for Emacs, changing the X font path might change
>which font is found.
>
>How about using a fully-qualified-font-name-with-lotsa-dashes?  Don't
>use wildcards in it.
>--
Well,

Here's what my .Xresources and .Xdefautls look like:
emacs*font: lucidasanstypewritet-12

/etc/X11/XFree86Config-4 (just the font paths)
Section "Files"
	FontPath	"unix/:7100"			# local font server
	# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype"
EndSection

As you can see, I'm not using any wild cards. Curiously enough, does a font 
exist where it's double spaced like in the weird picture that I posted?

bp

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Re: emacs and X problem

[Kai Großjohann]

"Bruce Park" <bpark79@hotmail.com> writes:

> Here's what my .Xresources and .Xdefautls look like:
> emacs*font: lucidasanstypewritet-12

This is not a long-font-name-with-lotsa-dashes.  Look in fonts.alias
(or font.aliases?) files for the long-font-name-with-lotsa-dashes
that's associated with this font.

You might also want to use xfontsel to see which other fonts might
be similar to this one.
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