On Wed, 06 May 2009 07:29:51 +0200 Robert Cernansky wrote: ...[snip]... > Back to 8x13... I must admit now it's a mystery for me why X does > not find 8x13 while it finds 6x13. Try following: > > 1. Do 'equery belongs /usr/share/fonts/misc' > This gives you list of all packages that have some files in misc > directory. 2. Stop X. > 3. Unmerge all packages listed in 1. > 4. Remove all remaining files in misc directory (or move them > somewhere else). > 5. Emerge packages unmerged in 3. (or you can try emerge just > font-misc-misc.
Hello Robert, Likely font-misc-misc was removed by "emerge --depclean" a while back and nothing went wrong until my workstation was restarted due to a power outage. Yesterday morning I had installed font-misc-misc and added FontPath directives to xorg.conf. Yesterday evening I restarted X without any emacs behavior changes. This morning, as you suggested, I unmerged font-misc-misc and font-alias, emerged them, and restarted X. Now emacs is happy. As an experiment, I removed FontPath info from xorg.conf and the emacs font problem came back. Evidently my impression that xorg.conf no longer needed to have font information was wrong :-< Thanks for your continued assistance. It's much appreciated. Regards, David
