GNU bug report logs - #10304
24.0.92: display bug

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <yagnesh <at> live.com>

Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:54:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #105 received at 10304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 10304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: display bug
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:11:38 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: 10304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:20:31 +0200
> 
> Bisecting my ~/.emacs, the following form provokes the display error for me:
> 
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
>              '(font . "-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-iso8859-1"))
> 
> On other machines, there is the same ~/.emacs w/o problems. On the
> machine in question, I have two matching fonts:
> 
> -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1
> -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-1
> 
> Does this tell you anything?

Not really, unfortunately: I know very little about fonts and how
Emacs uses them.

But if we continue your line of investigation: does removing one of
these fonts solve the problem with the original ~/.emacs?
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