bug#9648: 24.0.90; popup-menu doesn't work on Lucid Emacs

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

The font Emacs chooses can be one of three:

If you have Xft (antialiased fonts) and one of Xsettings/Gsettings/GConf
it chooses the normal font for your desktop.  You can see what it is by 
calling the lisp function font-get-system-font.

Otherwise, it uses Sans-10 if you have Xft, or the default Xt font if not.

        Jan D.



Katsumi Yamaoka skrev 2011-10-03 17:03:
> Katsumi Yamaoka<yamaoka@jpl.org>  wrote:
> > Jan Djärv wrote:
> > > Katsumi Yamaoka skrev 2011-10-02 03:01:
> > > > (require 'gnus-art)
> > > > (popup-menu gnus-mime-button-menu)
> > > > I get a box that seems to be a menu but no text is displayed in it.
>
> > Uhm, I couldn't reproduce it today.  The menu is displayed properly
> > with text.  Now I'm in the office and use Emacs that I built Friday
> > on Cygwin under Windows XP.  I'll try it again on Fedora 14 in home
> > about 14 hours later.
>
> I'm home.  I verified it reproduces with the latest Emacs 24.0.90
> (I built it minutes ago) on Fedora 14.  Here's a screenshot:
>
> http://www.jpl.org/tmp/Screenshot.png
>
> This happens with `emacs -Q', but setting the `Emacs*popup*font'
> resource with any font that provides ASCII characters solves it.
> Though it might not be an Emacs bug, I suspect there's something
> that leads Emacs to choose a wrong font when there's no X resource
> for `Emacs*popup*font'.