2008/12/6 Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh(a)pacbell.net>:
When I start emacs under F10 it displays everything in a very small
font, and reports that it can't find any fonts. In particular running
$ emacs --debug-init
produces this line in the emacs message buffer:
Warning: no fonts matching `-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
available [2 times]
while
$ xfontsel -fn '-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
works just fine.
Attempting to change the font to anything using "Options->Set
Font/Fontsel..."
always seems to always provoke the message from emacs
mouse-set-font: Font not found
Does anyone know what's going on? It looks like the system is missing
an rpm, but it's not obvious which one.
Emacs 22 (in F10) uses the legacy Xorg fonts, so you need to install
those. Start with a
yum install xorg-x11-fonts-misc
and depending on what fonts you're wanting to use, you may need some of
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-100dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-75dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-75dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-75dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic.noarch
This is a packaging bug with Emacs. Alas the emacs package is
presently unmaintained, but there's a few of us awaiting approval to
take the package over, at which point the bug will get fixed.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469220
HTH
Jonathan