Grant Edwards <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2010-07-08, Allan Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Grant Edwards <[email protected]> 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
