On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Chong Yidong wrote: > Chong Yidong writes: > >> Nimbus Mono does require Freetype, but if you compile without Xft, >> Emacs shouldn't be looking for that font at all. I verified this by >> doing >> >> ./configure --with-xft=no >> make >> ./src/emacs -q >> >> Then Emacs displays the welcome screen fine >> Here's something to try: could you try making sure there are no X >> resources specified, by doing >> >> xrdb -remove >> >> and running `emacs -Q' to eliminate all customizations? Does the font >> problem still show up in that case? > > Hi, could you try the steps suggested in this email and let us know the > results? Thanks. Hi, Chong Yidong, Sorry, since I've reported the issue, I've made a lot of changes to the system, on unrelated matter. Now I'm using Gnome on Debian squeeze/sid (a different desktop environment, different kernel etc.). I've installed Emacs24 from Debian testing, and it doesn't show the same behavior as before, however, if I compile on my own, - still the same problem with fonts. Using the configuration option you suggested, I was prompted for missing library - tifflib. I've then installed tifflib5-dev from Debian. The configuration was successful afterwards. I attach the screenshot of how the version I compiled looks. Best. Oleg