Emacs cannot display font correctly [Solved]

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gamedragon · Post by **gamedragon** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 10:20 am

I've emerged xorg-x11 as X server and XFCE-4 as desktop enviroment. After that I've emerged emacs. But when I execute emacs under X, it cannot display normal font, there are all the hollow square in the window.

I thought emacs need the support of some font server, but which font server supports emacs?

This is relative part in my xorg.conf file:

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Section "Files"
  #FontPath   "unix:/_1"
  FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    .........
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load   "dbe"
  Load   "type1"
  Load   "freetype"
  Load   "glx"
EndSection

monotux · Post by **monotux** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 1:23 pm

I have the same problem.

Haven't found any true solution, but I use xemacs instead

kosine · Post by **kosine** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 2:04 pm

Your font directory in xorg.conf
is not correct, It should be /usr/share/fonts/ ......
not like XFee86's /usr/X11/....

you may need to emerge corefonts or other fonts in media-fonts/
again.

here is part of xorg.conf

FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ukr"

ett_gramse_nap · Post by **ett_gramse_nap** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 3:29 pm

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<offtopic type="flame">emacs cannot display <strong>anything</strong> correctly</offtopic>

gamedragon · Post by **gamedragon** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:59 pm

I've changed the font path, but it stll doesn't work. There are still no correct charactors in the window

which corefont should I emerge?

gamedragon · Post by **gamedragon** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 3:30 pm

Solved by

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USE="-motif" emerge emacs

skizza · Post by **skizza** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:44 pm

The problem for me apeared to be the font paths in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

check that the font paths they reffer to exist

this sets of fonts works fine for me

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        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/util"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/encodings"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/local"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/default"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
# ModulePath can be used to set a search path for the X server modules.
# The default path is shown here.
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"

cheers

Emacs cannot display font correctly [Solved]

Emacs cannot display font correctly [Solved]

I had some problem before, the fonts in Emacs are square