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| author | Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> | 2003-10-24 09:27:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> | 2003-10-24 09:27:51 +0000 |
| commit | f16a1bf6711cbed28d654a81526d5daf2b390edb (patch) | |
| tree | 2afe33aa05df60b734a1057c9578410546a68f90 /etc/PROBLEMS | |
| parent | 0363e09a8304aafa6eb5ac0e022d46c92ace9a5c (diff) | |
| download | emacs-f16a1bf6711cbed28d654a81526d5daf2b390edb.tar.gz | |
* PROBLEMS: Characters are displayed as empty boxes or
with wrong font under X.
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index ca00289218b..a59b496bf75 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1,6 +1,20 @@ This file describes various problems that have been encountered in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. +* Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X. + +This can occur when two different versions of FontConfig are used. +For example, XFree86 4.3.0 has one version and Gnome usually comes +with a newer version. Emacs compiled with --with-gtk will then use +the newer version. In most cases the problem can be temporarily +fixed by stopping the application that has the error (it can be +Emacs or any other application), removing ~/.fonts.cache-1, +and then start the application again. +If removing ~/.fonts.cache-1 and restarting doesn't help, the +application with problem must be recompiled with the same version +of FontConfig as the rest of the system uses. For KDE, it is +sufficient to recompile Qt. + * Process output truncated on Mac OS X (Carbon) when using pty's. There appears to be a problem with the implementation of pty's on the |