Re: -urw-* font is always used

[Jan D.]

Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> Kim F. Storm wrote:
>
> > "Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > By chance, I just got the same problem (but not in Emacs), that just
> > > empty boxes where shown.  There seems to be some bugs in fontconfig,
> > > removing ~/.fonts.cache* fixed it for me.
>
>
> AFAIK Emacs doesn't use Fontconfig in rendering window content, only in 
> rendering menus, etc (--with-gtk).  I think window content is always 
> rendered with the good old X core fonts.

Fontconfig is just a font selection mechanism.  If you are running XFree86 
4.3.0, you have fontconfig in there.  But that version is older than the 
version that Gnome wants.

My problem (I think) was that I started an Emacs that used the Gnome libraries 
(i.e. GTK and newer fontconfig), and then the other non-GTK apps used the older 
fontconfig.  These apps then displayed empty boxes, because the newer 
fontconfig wrote a ~/.fonts.cache-1 that the older fontconfig apparently did 
not understand.  Or it can just be a bug in fontconfig that corrupts 
~/.fonts.cache-1.

If it happens again, you can always try to remove ~/.fonts.cache-1 and restart 
Emacs, to see if you have the same problem.

        Jan D.