Cc-ing xemacs-beta. James> Need to add --site-includes='/usr/include/freetype2' James> because otherwise ft2build.h can't find James> freetype/config/ftheader.h. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that brain damage. James> Hmm. Perhaps USE_XFT_MENUBARS isn't defined? Oops. James> Huh. This is wrapped in NEED_MOTIF. Oops again. James> Okay, test. Crashes if it reads my config files. Are you using desktop.el or something like that, with largish files? That might trigger the progress-bar crash, which seems to be due to improper initialization of the progress widget's Label parent. Anyway, try turning off progress bars in init.el: (setq progress-feedback-use-echo-area t) James> Running src/xemacs -vanilla. Runs. Seems to be using James> Bitstream Vera Serif for default font? I think that is fontconfig, not XEmacs. I get Courier if I don't set something else. If you're going to try to get actual work done, I recommend setting X resources for XEmacs.default.attributeFont: XEmacs.modeline.attributeFont: XEmacs*menubar*font: XEmacs*Tabs*xftFont: Note that the first two are _face_ resources, while the latter two are _widget_ resources. Also note the use of "xftFont" for Tabs widgets. This will go away later. James> The tab is half obscured because its base font (and the James> menubar's) is 20 point or so. Thus the tab isn't sizing James> properly. Hm. I don't see this. James> Changing the font to courier via menubar gets me a modeline James> that is in 48 point courier. Again, I don't see this. Unfortunately, fontconfig prefers to return something (anything!) if you use the convenience interface, and doesn't provide a useful status value in that case. So the next thing I'm going to do is to provide better functions for looking at the actual font instance than we currently have. James> If I change the font again I get a crash. Do you want the James> backtrace? Yes. -- Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering University of Tsukuba http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Economics of Information Communication and Computation Systems Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory