Installing Emacs with X support needs adding font paths to the Xorg.conf file. The topic in the URL field I gave describes enough the situation: If installing Emacs and using it in X, then it is not usable till adding font path to xorg.conf. Because of this unusability under X, I made the bug major. It is though possible to use it just in "console mode" (out of X)
Please, describe the problem here, not in forums. It's not much useful for other people that use bugzilla to search for solution to their problem.
I have a big problem with emacs, in X mode. Emacs displays only little squares. http://locataire-serveur.info/workspaces/members/mihamina/public/emacs Here is my USE variable when compiling emacs: USE="-kde firefox ipv6 java ldap mp3 msn ocaml python perl alsa quicktime sox threads win32codecs mplayer xine yahoo jabber zeo cdparanoia cups dvdread emacs ffmpeg gphoto2 gtk2 gtk X -qt dvd alsa cdr dvdr ogg oggvorbis theora speex " When running emacs in console mode, there is no problem. I solved the problem by appending two lines to the FontPath section of the xorg.conf file: FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" I would suggest (the Emacs ebuild maintainer) to patch the xorg.conf file in order to add these two lines if the "X" USE option is set.
Ah. Hmmm, not really sure why you are missing them, those two lines definitely used to be there by default... ?
In Gentoo, the user is expected to create his or her own xorg.conf. Thus, any problem concerning xorg.conf is considered a user configuration problem. The emacs team may want to provide einfo at the end of the install suggesting these font paths be added.
Ok, we should at least suggest them to do so. What's the way?
I put a note in the app-editors/emacs and app-editors/emacs-cvs ebuilds that Emacs requires fonts (imagine that! ;-)
*** Bug 265117 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
