Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

[Allan Gottlieb]

Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> writes:

> 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.

Perhaps it is a font issue.  I just did emacs -q (-Q eliminates the
splash screen) and then did C-u C-x = while the cursor was on the "b" in
"Learn basic keystroke commands".  The help buffer includes
          display: by this font (glyph code)
    xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x45)

What does C-u C-x = give on your system and do you have that font
available?

These are just guesses; I have not experience any such problem myself.

allan