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I've been experiencing a weird emacs related problem and I was wondering if anyone could help.
The weird picture is located at http://rplaca.cs.qc.edu/~bpark/weird.jpg
The normal picture is located at http://rplaca.cs.qc.edu/~bpark/normal.jpg
This happens from time to time. There is no consistency. From what I can tell, the weird picture looks like the cursor(on 'W') has double height. Somehow, it's double spaced on its own. If anyone has any suggestions, please post something.
bp
It seems strange that it happens randomly. Could it be some font problem?
OK,
After trying out some tests, it seems that the emacs window will become weird when another X-window application is launched. For example, when I visit certain web sites that have java applets, a new window will pop up and display if I want to grant permission for this session or not. Once this window pops up, the emacs fonts become all weird.
Did I mention that the problem goes away when I log back in to the system?
bp
That seems like a bug in the X server. Which version are you using?
I believe I'm using v 4.1.0-16. For some reason. The only thing I did to tweak this was add a .Xresources file and .Xdefaults file in my home directory. They contain nothing else other than setting up that emacs font. Another thing I did was removing xfonts-100dpi. I manually deleted the lines that contained the path to these directories since I deleted them.
bp
I don't think that it's a config error since it's caused by another program, something that should never happen. Maybe you should report this to one of the mailing lists at www.xfree86.org.
I'd like to add that running gkrellm also causes this problem. Again, gkrellm uses X so I guess it's nothing new but I was hoping that someone may have solution to this.
bp