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sud_crow

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2003-06-30

Posts: 546

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Weird Emac's fonts

I need to do some things in pascal and was trying Vim, Lazarus and thought of Emacs as dev. apps., the problem is that emacs is throwing this errors:

[crow@archcrow ~/algoritmos/2-2006]$ emacs
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

And the fonts look like blocks... I don't understand what's the problem, as I'm using using en_US as my locales:

[crow@archcrow ~/algoritmos/2-2006]$ locale
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=

Any ideas?

ps. the menu looks ok, only the fonts on the editor look like hollow blocks

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Leonardo Andrés Gallego
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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Weird Emac's fonts

Install xorg-fonts-75dpi and/or xorg-fonts-100dpi depending on your setup. If unsure, try xorg-fonts-75dpi and if you still get some hollow boxes, install  xorg-fonts-100dpi

drakosha

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Registered: 2006-01-03

Posts: 253

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Re: Weird Emac's fonts

You might also try the following 2 things:
1. emacs -fn 10x20
2. shift + left-click in emacs window - you'll get a font menu