On Tue, 05 May 2009 15:51:41 +0200 Robert Cernansky wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2009 07:41:34 -0400 David Relson > <rel...@osagesoftware.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 May 2009 12:20:14 +0200 > > Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > David Relson writes: > > > > > > > I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've got > > > > emacs-22.3.1 installed. Normally I can start it from the Gnome > > > > start menu or from a gnome terminal. Now it seems that nothing > > > > happens when I start it from the start menu. When I start it > > > > from a gnome terminal, emacs reports "No fonts match '8x13'". > > > > Anybody know how to fix this? > > > > > > Do you have media-fonts/font-misc-misc installed? > > > > > > Wonko > > > > H'lo Wonko, > > > > I didn't have that font installed. After installing it and > > restarting xfs, the problem is still present. Any other ideas? > > What is the output of 'xlsfonts | grep 8x13' command? If it does not > find 8x13 as well then check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf > and /etc/X11/fs/config. > > Or try not to use xfs if you do not need it (it is not needed on > standard desktop configuration). I'm not using xfs and emacs works > fine after update to xorg-server 1.5.3. You can remove entire > 'Section "Files"' from your xorg.conf I guess. However if it will not > work for you, try to add 'FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"' line to > section Files. > > Robert
'xlsfonts | grep 8x13' returns nothing. 'xlsfonts | grep x13' shows '6x13' and "emacs --font=6x13" works, thought it's not ideal. /etc/X11/fs/config _does_ have /usr/share/fonts/misc and that directory does have 8x13 fonts. With xorg-server-1.5.3, my xorg.conf has been reduced to 3 lines so that my keyboard and mouse would work, i.e. Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" EndSection I've copied the "Section Files" and all the FontPath lines (including one with /usr/share/fonts/misc) from my old xorg.conf, but that hasn't helped emacs find 8x13.