From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tragedy Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87fxn8oo2i.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223368879 12802 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2008 08:41:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:41:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 07 10:42:13 2008 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 4.50) id 1Kn88t-0000pX-Nm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:42:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60834 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kn87p-0005Xz-QR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:41:01 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.225.70.2 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1223366144 9550 127.0.0.1 (7 Oct 2008 07:55:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:55:44 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=220.225.70.2; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 PT-PROXY1, 1.1 PT-PROXY2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163130 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:58471 Archived-At: On Oct 7, 12:35=A0pm, Tim X wrote: > May or may not be of use, but I encountered the same problem after > updating CVS emacs last Thursday. The solution I found that works under > X is to add > > Emacs.FontBackend: xft > > to my .Xresources file. > > Tim > > -- > tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au Hi Tim Can you explain a little what that does? A little context for asking: 1. Ive been running emacs (21 and 22) for a while under debian etch and ubuntu dapper. Some of the settings of background color etc are set in Xresources. And every once in a while -- quite randomly -- it does not work. 2. Recently upgraded the dapper to hardy. Now 'snapshot' is not 22 but 23. Supposedly the font support is better there but in fact it looks distinctly worse. 3. When upgrading from dapper to hardy the upgrade broke on xfonts- scalable. A little googling told me the problem is evidently in xfonts-utils. Trying to set that up broke everything and I had to give up upgrading and go for a new install.