With latest Emacs from trunk as of today, I cannot display the export dispatch UI of Org. Here is a minimal recipe: emacs -Q M-: (set-frame-font "Meslo LG M DZ 11") RET C-x C-f ~/test.org RET C-c C-e Of course, you need this the Meslo font installed. But maybe the problem happens for other fonts as well. I'm attaching a backtrace.