Re: [SOLVED] Re: emacs-23.1.90 in terminal does not respond to keyboard input, but works fine as a standalone X11 app.

[William Gardella]

Hi Richard,

Richard Lemieux <jerlemieux@gmail.com> writes:

> The problem was that Emacs (or some X11 library routine) needed some
> font that it could not find.  At that point Emacs had access to the
> fonts provided by the basic X11 install  plus the fonts coming with
> Linux.  After I moved all the fonts from my older Linux partition to
> the newer one, the problem was gone.  Unfortunately I can't tell which
> font was missing since I have accumulated too many fonts over the
> years.
>
> So even when running Emacs in a 'linux' virtual console, one needs to
> have some particular font installed (setting of LANG had no effect if
> I recall correctly).
>
> Although I know the problem was related to some font, I still can't
> tell why this specific choice of font is critical to the operation of
> Emacs on a dumb 'linux' console.

I'd be curious to know if the problem occurs for Emacs built both with
./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk and without, if Slackware will give you
that option.

-WGG

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