Re: Font problem on git master

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 07:27:52 -0800, "T.V Raman" <address@hidden> said:

    TVR> Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:
    TVR> I ran into a similar issue over the weekend after building emacs from
    TVR> Git.

    TVR> I had inherited these lines in .Xresources from way back:
    TVR> Emacs.FontBackend:     ftcrhb,xft,x

It failed with ftcrhb as the first item? Are you building Emacs with
Cairo but without HarfBuzz?

    TVR> Emacs*font:    
-adobe-Utopia-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1

    TVR> After the update/build, emacs refused to start in GUI mode, -- emacs 
-nw
    TVR> worked, and it displayed the font backend error when started as emacs
    TVR> under X.

    TVR> I worked around the problem by commenting out the emacs.font line and 
it
    TVR> started with Adobe Courier.

    TVR> This morning, I updated the font backend line as suggested by you, and
    TVR> now I get over 3,000+ fonts -- and uncommenting the Adobe Utopia line
    TVR> does not cause the error.

What did you update it to? If itʼs

ftcrhb,x

are you now using the 'x' font backend?

    TVR> Could we update the News file with  details on what font backends are
    TVR> now recommended?

Done.

Robert