Re: Broken X fonts in emacs21, emacs bug?

2006-10-13 Thread edwardsa
OK, so this is the real fix. Move FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" to the top (above the misc). I don't understand why, but this gives great fonts for xemacs21. I've revised the web page accordingly. Art Edwards Daniel Johnson wrote: Twice now I have found emacs21 display squares i

Re: Broken X fonts in emacs21, emacs bug?

2006-10-13 Thread edwardsa
By now, you have probably fixed this problem, but I have been wrestling with font issues for several weeks now. I include a rough webpage with a recipe that has led to consistently pleasing fonts in both gnome and KDE. Art Edwards Daniel Johnson wrote: Twice now I have found emacs21 display s

Re: broken X startup in sid

2001-10-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Apparently the problem is the quoted $REALSTARTUP variable in the exec command of /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start. I removed the quotes and it's fine. I guess there were newlines chars in there or something, which are maintained if you quote a shell variable. Mike On Sun, Oct

Re: broken X startup in sid

2001-10-07 Thread Charles Baker
I upgraded sid last night too and it started up fine. Wonder what the problem is --- "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I just upgraded, and suddenly X wouldn't > startup anymore. I'd end up > with an error in my $HOME/.xsession file stating > something like > > /usr/bi

Re: broken X startup in sid

2001-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:23:41AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So, I just upgraded, and suddenly X wouldn't startup anymore. Look in the list archives. (It might be easier to find in the debian-x archives.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Broken X in testing ?

2001-07-05 Thread Joel Mayes
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 07:35:55PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Hi there ! > > Yesterday evening I performed an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' for my > woody box (as every week). > > I can not anymore start X, I get the following error message in > /var/log/XFree86.0.log: > Fatal server error: > co

Re: Broken X in testing ?

2001-07-04 Thread Dominique Deleris
"Donald R. Spoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had this same problem a couple of nights ago while doing a "apt-get > dist-upgrade" from Potato to Testing. I had seen this same problem > before a few months ago, and it was the fonts that time, so I went > directly to "dselect" and inspected the

Re: Broken X in testing ?

2001-07-03 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Dominique Deleris writes: > D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Are the font packages installed? Is xfs installed and running? > > > > Yep. Everything ran fine before the update, and no configuration > file was changed. xfonts-base is still there also. > I had this same problem a co

Re: Broken X in testing ?

2001-07-03 Thread Dominique Deleris
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Are the font packages installed? Is xfs installed and running? > Yep. Everything ran fine before the update, and no configuration file was changed. xfonts-base is still there also.

Re: Broken X in testing ?

2001-07-03 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 07:35:55PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: | Hi there ! | | Yesterday evening I performed an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' for my | woody box (as every week). | | I can not anymore start X, I get the following error message in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: | Fatal server error: | coul

Re: Broken X

2000-08-03 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:43:47PM +, Philip Downer wrote: > > If anyone could help me with this I'd appreciate it. I've just > installed debian potato test-cycle-1 (some cds I bought at UK Linux > Expo 2000). However whenever I run X I get the following message: > > Fatal Server Error: canno