FC5T2 problems: gnome-terminal, emacs and evolution

[Jens Petersen]

Charles Curley wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:35:02PM -0500, gb spam wrote:
>
>>On 1/17/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:17:50PM -0500, gb spam wrote:
>>>
>>>>>*)  emacs is broken. [..] I just get empty squares
>>>>>where each letter should be.

See <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174416>.

>>>Odd. I have the 75dpi package installed, and I see the problem.

Need to "mkfontdir /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi".

>>forgot to mention, had to do a service xfs restart too.

> I restarted X. No go. I shut X down completely, and restarted it. That
> worked, and emacs worked correctly.

Yep, you need to restart xfs and X after running mkfontdir.

-Jens