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Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?


From: Deniz Dogan
Subject: Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:17:55 +0200

2009/6/8 Deniz Dogan <address@hidden>:
> 2009/6/8 Chong Yidong <address@hidden>:
>> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Chong Yidong writes:
>>>
>>>  > I put
>>>  >
>>>  > Emacs.Font: Monospace 9
>>>  >
>>>  > in my .Xresources file.  That works with no problems.
>>>
>>> Shouldn't that be
>>>
>>> Emacs.Font: Monospace-9
>>
>> Emacs recognizes both.  The former is in the GTK format, and the latter
>> is in the Fontconfig format.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, neither of the two methods work.  They did work in an
> earlier version of Emacs 23, but that was a few months ago.  Anyways,
> what I really would like to know is whether this is an Emacs bug or an
> XMonad bug.  Any ideas?
>
> --
> Deniz Dogan
>

Having talked to some people on the XMonad mailing list, it seems that
it is probably Emacs that has the bug in this case. I'm starting Emacs
using "emacs -Q" with .Xdefaults and .Xresources completely empty and
even then things are off! Could it be anything else on my computer
breaking this? This is when using a fresh CVS checkout.

-- 
Deniz Dogan




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