Maybe it is something with the fonts: I can start emacs when specifying a font, e.g.
emacs -fn fixed emacs -fn lucida emacs -fn courier
However, the font is very small and the initial window width is large. I can then manually set a larger font, e.g. with (set-face-font 'default "-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-1").
Maybe it is something with the fonts: I can start emacs when specifying a font, e.g.
emacs -fn fixed
emacs -fn lucida
emacs -fn courier
However, the font is very small and the initial window width is large. I can then manually set a larger font, e.g. with (set-face-font 'default "-Misc- Fixed-Medium- R-Normal- -14-130- 75-75-C- 70-ISO8859- 1").