Re: -urw-* font is always used

[Ognyan Kulev]

Unfortunately, trying to give detailed and reliable report, the problem 
fixed itself ;-)  In one moment Emacs _always_ showed empty boxes 
instead of characters, whether or not gsfonts-x11 is installed, and 
whether or not it's started with "emacs -q".  But after some X restarts, 
the problem went away :-\

Jan D. wrote:

> Can you try
> % xfd -fn '...'
>
> where ... is the same as you give to Emacs, and see if that also gives
> the same font?
>
> Also, check the fontpath with
> % xset q
>
> If it says something like tcp/... you are using a font server.  Then
> the font path is probably in /etc/X11/config, in the catalogue= line.
> Move the URW-fonts last in the fontpath and try again.

I'm not using font server.  "xset q" gives

Font Path:
  /home/ogi/.gnome2/share/cursor-fonts, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
/home/ogi/.gnome2/share/fonts

> You can also check what fonts Emacs finds by evaluating
> (x-list-fonts "*")
> in the *scratch* buffer.
>
> Does it only list URW-fonts or other fonts as well?

("-arabic-newspaper-medium-r-normal--32-246-100-100-p-137-iso10646-1"
"-cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1"
"-cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-microsoft-cp1251"
"-cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1"
"-cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-microsoft-cp1251"
"-cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-iso10646-1"
"-cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-microsoft-cp1251"
"-cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1"
"-cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-microsoft-cp1251"
"-cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1"
"-cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-microsoft-cp1251"
"-cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-iso10646-1" ...)

The arabic font is in xfonts-base and has no western characters.  Is it
possible that there is a case when this font is always used and so all 
characters are displayed as empty boxes?

Regards
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