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Re: Emacs does not work with new Dell Display
From: |
Tim X |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs does not work with new Dell Display |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:09:48 +1100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
"Johs" <gjh@sdfsf.com> writes:
> I have just changed to a Dell 2007 WFP 20" widescreen display, but when I
> try to open emacs in Ubuntu it looks like this:
>
> http://www.tulsoba.com/pictures/pic1.png
>
> http://www.tulsoba.com/pictures/pic2.png
>
> I have tried to remove my .emacs file but it does not help. Is emacs limited
> to work with certain displays?
>
>
If your running under X, I doubt it is a problem with emacs not being
able to display on a wide screen as I think from the emacs
perspective, it is unaware of that level of physical information (i.e.
this type of issue is handled by the X server).
The square boxes are usually a sign emacs is having trouble finding
the right fonts. Try other fonts and see if you get a similar problem.
FWIW I'm running a 24 inch Dell wide screen with absolutely no
problems with either emacs 21 or emacs 22. I'm running under Debian -
in fact, I have this configuration on two different systems (at home
and at work) with two different video cards (one intel, one ati) and
previously had it working with a gforce2. I've used various different
fonts - courier, lucidatypwriter, fixed etc. On one system, I'm
running a font server, but on the other I'm just running with a
fontpath in the xorg.conf file.
hth
Tim
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