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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emacs font problem
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:41:32
Message-Id: yu939vt35ld.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emacs font problem by Grant Edwards
1 Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 > Recently emacs (running in X "window" mode) seems to have developed a
4 > font problem.
5 >
6 > There are two cases where text displays as a mixture of filled and
7 > unfilled rectangles:
8 >
9 > 1) When the mouse pointer hovers over certain things a balloon pops
10 > up containing nothing but black filled rectangles.
11 >
12 > 2) When you select "About Emacs" from the Help menu, the logo renders
13 > properly at the top of the screen, but the rest is blocks and
14 > rectangles: http://www.panix.com/~grante/emacsabout.png
15 >
16 > Normal editing is fine.
17 >
18 > Google hasn't found anything except discussion of problems with
19 > a misssing default font (the one used during editing), and I don't
20 > have any problems with that.
21 >
22 > Any ideas?
23
24 Does this happen when you invoke "emacs -Q"?
25
26 allan

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