Emacs Fonts vs. F10

[Jonathan Underwood]

2008/12/6 Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net>:
> When I start emacs under F10 it displays everything in a very small
> font, and reports that it can't find any fonts.  In particular running
>        $ emacs --debug-init
> produces this line in the emacs message buffer:
>        Warning: no fonts matching `-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' available [2 times]
> while
>        $ xfontsel -fn '-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
> works just fine.
> Attempting to change the font to anything using "Options->Set Font/Fontsel..."
> always seems to always provoke the message from emacs
>        mouse-set-font: Font not found
>
> Does anyone know what's going on?  It looks like the system is missing
> an rpm, but it's not obvious which one.
>

Emacs 22 (in F10) uses the legacy Xorg fonts, so you need to install
those. Start with a

yum install xorg-x11-fonts-misc

and depending on what fonts you're wanting to use, you may need some of

xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
  xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi
  xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi
  xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-100dpi
  xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-75dpi
  xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi
  xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-75dpi
  xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi
  xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi
  xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi
  xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-75dpi
  xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
  xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic.noarch
  xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic.noarch

This is a packaging bug with Emacs. Alas the emacs package is
presently unmaintained, but there's a few of us awaiting approval to
take the package over, at which point the bug will get fixed.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469220

HTH
Jonathan