From f16a1bf6711cbed28d654a81526d5daf2b390edb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Jan=20Dj=C3=A4rv?= Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:27:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * PROBLEMS: Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X. --- etc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ etc/PROBLEMS | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index 70a748e9dc1..ec75c24116d 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2003-10-24 Jan Dj,Ad(Brv + + * PROBLEMS: Characters are displayed as empty boxes or + with wrong font under X. + 2003-09-30 Werner Lemberg * TUTORIAL.de: Minor updates and grammatical fixes. 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 -- 2.39.2