Re: default font used

[Jason Rumney]

On Tuesday, 10 July 2012 22:24:28 UTC+8, Buchs, Kevin  wrote:

> I’m building emacs 24 from source on OpenSuse Linux and the result comes up 
> with a default font that is not desireable (-sony...). I’ve searched the code 
> and have not yet found what determines the default font used. Can someone 
> direct me to that, please.

The default font is chosen inside x_default_font_parameter in xfns.c. In the 
current development version as of a couple of days ago, the first match from 
the following list is used:

#ifdef HAVE_XFT
            /* This will find the normal Xft font.  */
            "monospace-10",
#endif
            "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1",
            "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1",
            "-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1",
            /* This was formerly the first thing tried, but it finds
               too many fonts and takes too long.  */
            "-*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1",
            /* If those didn't work, look for something which will
               at least work.  */
            "-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1",
            "fixed",