Re: [gentoo-user] emacs font problem

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> writes:

> Recently emacs (running in X "window" mode) seems to have developed a
> font problem.
>
> There are two cases where text displays as a mixture of filled and
> unfilled rectangles:
>
>  1) When the mouse pointer hovers over certain things a balloon pops
>     up containing nothing but black filled rectangles.
>
>  2) When you select "About Emacs" from the Help menu, the logo renders
>     properly at the top of the screen, but the rest is blocks and
>     rectangles: http://www.panix.com/~grante/emacsabout.png
>
> Normal editing is fine.
>
> Google hasn't found anything except discussion of problems with
> a misssing default font (the one used during editing), and I don't 
> have any problems with that.
>
> Any ideas?

Does this happen when you invoke "emacs -Q"?

allan