Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Stephen Berman wrote:

> I have not been setting any X resources, though the distribution I'm
> using (openSUSE 10.3) does set default X resources for Emacs, though
> "Emacs.FontBackend: xft" is not among them.  I just put that in
> ~/.Xresources and started a fresh Emacs, but I don't see any difference:
> the broken underlining and Gnus Summary buffer problems I documented are
> still present.
> 

Just in case: did you add it to the active resource database itself?
You can see the current contents of your X resource database with
xrdb -q , and add to it by e.g.

echo "Emacs.FontBackend: xft" | xrdb -merge