[developers] Weird GUI behavior on new ubuntu machine

[Andrew MacKinlay]

I've seen similar behaviour under Ubuntu (8.04) in VMWare Fusion -  
Stephan had a quick look in Keihanna but I don't think we came up with  
any solutions then. I haven't fired it up for a while but I think the  
problem was a little flaky - perhaps affected by whether I had the VM  
running over multiple monitors when I booted it up? Sorry I can't  
provide anything more useful than a little corroborating evidence.

Can't confirm the text input/emacs behaviour though (as I've only used  
emacs as a glorified [incr tsdb()] launcher..)


On 25/02/2009, at 8:56 AM, Emily M. Bender wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm enjoying running logon/lkb/[incr tsdb()] on my new blindingly-fast
> machine. It's actually a mac, but I'm running Ubuntu under VMWare
> fusion, and logon on the VM.   I've got an up-to-date copy of `trunk'.
> The ubuntu is 8.10, Intrepid Ibex.
>
> When I start it up, I get the font errors in the attached buffer.
> Perhaps relatedly, the menu fonts for both the [incr tsdb()] podium
> and the LKB top menu are HUGE.  Also, the text input in the  [incr
> tsdb()] podium doesn't work, and when I quit (by selecting Quit in the
> lkb top menu or by typing :exit at the lisp prompt)  my emacs ceases
> to head any keyboard input.
>
> Does this particular constellation of symptoms sound familiar to  
> anyone?
>
> Emily