On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:26:40PM -0500, anoop aryal wrote: > >How many "names" does xfontsel say are available? (Or does it even get > >that far?) > > > xfontsel doesn't get that far. it quits right away. Hmm. What does "xlsfonts" say? > >Can you tell us what font packages you have installed on your system? > > > i'm new to debian so bear with me. here's the output of "dpkg -l > "*font*" | egrep -v "^un": > > pi fontconfig 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library > ii gfontview 0.5.0-2 A font viewer for Type 1 and TrueType > fonts > ii gsfonts 8.14-3 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s) > ii gsfonts-x11 0.17 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11 > ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library > (shared l > ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library > (developm > pn msttcorefonts <none> (no description available) > ii psfontmgr 0.11.8 PostScript font manager -- part of > Defoma, D > ii ttf-freefont 20031008-1 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype > fonts > ii x-ttcidfont-co 17 Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X > ii xfonts-100dpi 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 100 dpi fonts for X > ii xfonts-75dpi 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 75 dpi fonts for X > ii xfonts-base 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 standard fonts for X > ii xfonts-scalabl 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 scalable fonts for X > > please let me know if you need more info. > > i'm tempted to think it's some font that's causing this bruhaha.. > because this started happening after i installed msttcorefonts (because > some other package mentioned it during it's installation and i figured > why not..). i remember seeing "defoma"during that configuration but > can't recall exactly what package it was that i had installed or > configured at that point. i didn't use emacs for several days after that > so by the time i ran into this problem i had already forgotten what > package it was.. i think there was an update to emacs as well.. :( Hmm. I too suspect that one of the packages like msttcorefonts is triggering the problem, though what is probably the culprit here is a bug in X's font support. > oh, i just hit reply to the email, let me know if i need to send it to > the bts instead. :) I'm taking care of that. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | I just wanted to see what it looked Debian GNU/Linux | like in a spotlight. branden@debian.org | -- Jim Morrison http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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