I've got an old system, unmodified for years. I run emacs 21.2.1 on it using ssh X forwarding to put the emacs window on my desktop. I've just done an update of my fedora 29 system after being away for a couple of weeks, and now the fonts are all messed up.
I'm never absolutely sure about these things, but I believe the old X programs get their fonts from the server, and suddenly the fonts when I try to run this old emacs with my fedora 29 desktop as the server have gone completely wacko.
For instance, emacs claims the frame is 101 characters wide, but if I type characters across the window, I can see it is actually 81 characters wide (this is using terminus fonts which were also updated in the pile of updates I got this morning).
Anyone have any clue what might be going on here? Who is lying to whom about the fonts?
On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 10:13:36 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote:
Anyone have any clue what might be going on here? Who is lying to whom about the fonts?
I seem to have tracked this down to the new terminus fonts:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1664054
doing a dnf downgrade on them fixed everything.
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Tom Horsley