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Re: on startup no fonts, just little empty boxes
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ken |
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Re: on startup no fonts, just little empty boxes |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:50:58 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090625) |
On 10/25/2009 04:58 PM ken wrote:
> Just upgraded CentOS to (uname) "Linux 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus #1 SMP
> Fri Oct 9 12:34:43 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux" and since then,
> when emacs (version 21.4.1) starts up (using emacs -Q), where there
> should be text there are only little empty boxes, each the size of
> character. The error message reads:
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
>
>
> What's emacs doing or trying to do?
>
> tia for any help.
>
Thanks for the assistance. :P I couldn't solve the problem, so I
solved the problem by reviving an emacs 23.1.1 that I compiled myself
some months back. And after all the diddling I did with the Fontconfig
subsystem, the fonts I'm seeing now are much more pleasant than what I
was getting with it before. So it (the 23.1.1 version) must be using
the newer font subsystem while the 21.4.1 version is using the core X
stuff (which I haven't yet dug into). If anyone can disagree, how does
one come to know?