Very Computer

I'm running RH 5.2 with KDE. It's a fresh install, and I haven't done
anything wierd as far as I know!

My problem is with emacs. When I fire it up under X it doesn't display
properly. The text starts *underneath* the scroll bar on the left hand
side of the window. I am able to type properly, but the characters
appear on the screen with a really wide spacing between each character
(pressing C-L after typing corrects this problem - but its a real pain).
If I page up or page down then the window becomes corrupted, with
portions of my document all of the place (again I have to press C-L).
Similarly the mini-buffer is doing wierd things.

I can't think what the problem could be. I've tried playing around with
some of the settings in my .Xdefaults, but I don't know what to change.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks

Matt

: I'm running RH 5.2 with KDE. It's a fresh install, and I haven't done
: anything wierd as far as I know!

: My problem is with emacs. When I fire it up under X it doesn't display
: properly. The text starts *underneath* the scroll bar on the left hand
[snip]
: I can't think what the problem could be. I've tried playing around with
: some of the settings in my .Xdefaults, but I don't know what to change.

: Any suggestions?

What kind of font do you use? A proportional or a non-proportional?
If you use proportional it might be that emacs has a problem with
that.
If so, add
emacs*font: fixed
to your .Xdefaults.

Have fun,
Frans

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    Matt> My problem is with emacs. When I fire it up under X it
    Matt> doesn't display properly. The text starts *underneath* the
    Matt> scroll bar on the left hand side of the window. I am able to
    Matt> type properly, but the characters appear on the screen with
    Matt> a really wide spacing between each character (pressing C-L
    Matt> after typing corrects this problem - but its a real pain).
    Matt> If I page up or page down then the window becomes corrupted,
    Matt> with portions of my document all of the place (again I have
    Matt> to press C-L).  Similarly the mini-buffer is doing wierd
    Matt> things.

    Matt> I can't think what the problem could be. I've tried playing
    Matt> around with some of the settings in my .Xdefaults, but I
    Matt> don't know what to change.

Yes, you're using proportional fonts.  Change your fonts to
mono-spaced fonts like courier or lucidatypewriter and things will
snap back into place.  Quick test -- click on the Mule menu and choose
`Set Font/Fontset,' then select something like `Courier 12' and I'm
sure you'll see the problem cleared up immediately.

Put something like this in your .Xdefaults file:

emacs*font: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-90-100-*-m-\
70-iso8859-1

mp

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                             Michael Powe

                         Portland, Oregon USA

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I checked my .Xdefaults and I already have the line:

emacs*font: fixed

Having said that I like the theory that its down to proportional fonts. I
tried changing to some other fonts by editing .Xdefaults. It didn't actually
seem to change the font at all....can't think what I'm doing wrong....do I
need to restart my X server every time I change .Xdefaults, or is it enough
just to restart emacs (which is what I have been doing)?

Matt

Matt

: The problem is definately due to proportional fonts. Once emacs has loaded I am
: able to change the font manually to a fixed width font. Everything then works as
: it should. My problem now though is that emacs is ignoring my .Xdefaults file.
: No matter what I put in there it doesn't seem to make any difference. I have to
: change the font every time emacs loads up. Why might that be?

Emacs also read a .emacs file.  It might be the the font setting
is over-written there.    Try renaming the .emacs file and see
what happens....

If it is not in there you might want to put the command you use
to change your font in the .emacs file :)

Have fun,
Frans.

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    Matt> The problem is definately due to proportional fonts. Once
    Matt> emacs has loaded I am able to change the font manually to a
    Matt> fixed width font. Everything then works as it should. My
    Matt> problem now though is that emacs is ignoring my .Xdefaults
    Matt> file.  No matter what I put in there it doesn't seem to make
    Matt> any difference. I have to change the font every time emacs
    Matt> loads up. Why might that be?

Hmm, seems like I already posted this once.

emacs*font: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-90-100-*\
- -m-70-iso8859-1

This particular font is from the GNU international font set.  You may
not have it.  Run xfontsel and it will enable you to pick out and
"design" one of these font lines.  Use courier if nothing else.  Once
you have it, click the 'select' button -- this puts the font line into
the clipboard.  Then you can call up .Xdefaults in emacs and paste the
result into it.

mp

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