[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-07-08, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> writes:
>
>> Recently emacs (running in X "window" mode) seems to have developed a
>> font problem.
>>
>> There are two cases where text displays as a mixture of filled and
>> unfilled rectangles:
>>
>>  1) When the mouse pointer hovers over certain things a balloon pops
>>     up containing nothing but black filled rectangles.
>>
>>  2) When you select "About Emacs" from the Help menu, the logo renders
>>     properly at the top of the screen, but the rest is blocks and
>>     rectangles: http://www.panix.com/~grante/emacsabout.png
>>
>> Normal editing is fine.
>>
>> Google hasn't found anything except discussion of problems with
>> a misssing default font (the one used during editing), and I don't
>> have any problems with that.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Does this happen when you invoke "emacs -Q"?

Yes.

In the "about emacs" screen, and all of the "balloons" that pop up
when the mouse hovers over various things, the text is rendered as
blocks/rectangles.

The menus, status line, and acutal editing windows are all fine.

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