emacs won't start unless I speciffy font

[Andrew Haley]

On 08/22/2011 12:57 AM, Martín Marqués wrote:
> I'm trying to start emacs on a fresh F15 install and I get this:
> 
> 
> $ emacs
> Font `8x13' is not defined
> 
> The only posible thing I found is to use --font to specify another font.
> 
> Any ideas on why this happens?

You're probably missing the xorg-x11-fonts-misc package

and perhaps ~/.fonts.conf:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc</dir>
  <selectfont>
    <acceptfont>
      <pattern>
        <patelt name="family">
          <string>fixed</string>
        </patelt>
      </pattern>
    </acceptfont>
  </selectfont>
</fontconfig>

Andrew.