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Hi all,
I have been using slackware for sometime now. I have now slackware 12.0 installed on my computer. Everything seems to be fine except for fonts in emacs. I noticed that there is dejavu fonts included in the /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory. however, if i set my fonts in my .emacs file as
(set-default-font "-misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--*-*-75-75-p-*-*-*")
i get only blocks.
i then copied bitstream sans mono fonts in the same directory as above. then i did mkfontscale,mkfontdir,fc-cache. i restarted X. although i bitstream vera fonts are found, again i get blocks.
however bitstream charter works.
Is there something i am missing? xlsfonts for dejavu and bitstream vera sans mono shows 0(zero) in the pixel size fields.
any help is very much appreciated.
Thanks
krishnan
Try putting - between dejavu and sans. Maybe that'll help.
Problem is now solved.
i got emacs from the CVS(23.0.50) and recompiled from source. Fonts are now all ok. I think this is a problem with emacs version 21.4. Thanks again for your suggestions.
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