Re: Font problems in cygwinx
On 7/2/2021 5:21 PM, mcforum wrote: The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text in buffers is normal. I'm not sure what you mean by "legends in the heading". And when you say "have turned into boxes", are you saying that the problem just recently started? Or have you always found X11 emacs unusable? What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs -w32 works. My best guess is that the problem is caused by your customizations. What happens if you run 'emacs -Q'? If you still see the problem with 'emacs -Q', please give a more detailed bug report, following the guidelines here: https://cygwin.com/problems.html And please say exactly how you're starting emacs. Ken -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Font problems in cygwinx
On 2021-07-02 15:21, mcforum wrote: The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text in buffers is normal. What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs -w32 works. If you were using Windows fonts in Emacs, that could be caused by Windows packages that decide it's a good idea to replace your existing installed versions of Windows fonts by theirs e.g. LibreOffice updates mess up the appearance of all my Windows, X, and Cygwin apps until I reboot. It seems to be caused by their ancient installer approach and aggressive font replacement policy. If something like that could be a cause of your problem, try rebooting to see if that clears up the problem. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in binary units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.] -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Font problems in cygwinx
On 7/2/21 5:46 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2021 5:21 PM, mcforum wrote: The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text in buffers is normal. I'm not sure what you mean by "legends in the heading". And when you say "have turned into boxes", are you saying that the problem just recently started? Or have you always found X11 emacs unusable? The labels on the drop down menus and their contents. Been using emacs on cygwin for decades. What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs -w32 works. My best guess is that the problem is caused by your customizations. What happens if you run 'emacs -Q'? Don't do customizations. -Q doesn't help If you still see the problem with 'emacs -Q', please give a more detailed bug report, following the guidelines here: https://cygwin.com/problems.html And please say exactly how you're starting emacs. cygwin terminal-->startxwin-->cygwin terminal emacs . -fh -geometry 100-512 & -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Font problems in cygwinx
On 7/2/21 5:58 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2021-07-02 15:21, mcforum wrote: The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text in buffers is normal. What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs -w32 works. If you were using Windows fonts in Emacs, that could be caused by Windows packages that decide it's a good idea to replace your existing installed versions of Windows fonts by theirs e.g. LibreOffice updates mess up the appearance of all my Windows, X, and Cygwin apps until I reboot. It seems to be caused by their ancient installer approach and aggressive font replacement policy. If something like that could be a cause of your problem, try rebooting to see if that clears up the problem. Used "Courier New" for years. Just a monospace font for data entry. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Font problems in cygwinx
On 7/3/2021 12:28 AM, Robert McBroom wrote: On 7/2/21 5:46 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2021 5:21 PM, mcforum wrote: The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text in buffers is normal. I'm not sure what you mean by "legends in the heading". And when you say "have turned into boxes", are you saying that the problem just recently started? Or have you always found X11 emacs unusable? The labels on the drop down menus and their contents. Been using emacs on cygwin for decades. So you're saying this is a recent problem? Can you think of anything on your system that has changed since X11 emacs was last usable for you? What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs -w32 works. My best guess is that the problem is caused by your customizations. What happens if you run 'emacs -Q'? Don't do customizations. -Q doesn't help You said in a different message that you use Courier New. How are you selecting the font in emacs? And does the problem still occur if you just let emacs choose the font? If you still see the problem with 'emacs -Q', please give a more detailed bug report, following the guidelines here: https://cygwin.com/problems.html And please say exactly how you're starting emacs. cygwin terminal-->startxwin-->cygwin terminal emacs . -fh -geometry 100-512 & Once again, please follow the problem-reporting guidelines at https://cygwin.com/problems.html Ken -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Font problems in cygwinx
On 2021-07-02 22:33, Robert McBroom wrote:
On 7/2/21 5:58 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2021-07-02 15:21, mcforum wrote:
The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text
in buffers is normal.
What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs
-w32 works.
If you were using Windows fonts in Emacs, that could be caused by
Windows packages that decide it's a good idea to replace your existing
installed versions of Windows fonts by theirs e.g. LibreOffice updates
mess up the appearance of all my Windows, X, and Cygwin apps until I
reboot.
It seems to be caused by their ancient installer approach and
aggressive font replacement policy.
If something like that could be a cause of your problem, try rebooting
to see if that clears up the problem.
You could try restarting Windows, then rerunning setup to rerun the
postinstall scripts, to see if that fixes the font configuration.
Used "Courier New" for years. Just a monospace font for data entry.
Do you know if that is the Windows Courier New, one of the MS TT Core
Fonts package, or one of the X aliases Liberation Mono, Cousine,
Cumberland, Cumberland AMT?
See:
$ cd /usr/share/fonts/
$ ls -glo {truetype/msttcore,win-}fonts/Cour*.ttf | cut -c35-
truetype/msttcorefonts/cour.ttf -> Courier_New.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/courb.ttf -> Courier_New_Bold.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/courbd.ttf -> Courier_New_Bold.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/courbi.ttf -> Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/couri.ttf -> Courier_New_Italic.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/courz.ttf -> Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Bold.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Italic.ttf
win-fonts/cour.ttf
win-fonts/courbd.ttf
win-fonts/courbi.ttf
win-fonts/couri.ttf
also /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf:
...
Cousine
Courier New
...
Liberation Mono
Courier New
...
Cumberland
Courier New
...
Cumberland AMT
Courier New
...
Courier
Courier New
...
Courier New
Courier
...
Courier New
Cousine
Liberation Mono
Cumberland
Cumberland AMT
...
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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