Re: Font setting issue in recent emacs dev version

[Tim Cross]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 14:10:15 +1100
>> 
>>    Emacs developers  
>> Have encountered a font issue in recent dev emacs and wanted to verify it 
>> isn't due to a known change before
>> creating a bug report. 
>
> Please in the future report any problems as bugs, so that they are
> recorded by the issue tracker.
>

OK, if that is the preference, I will. Was just trying to avoid
cluttering the bug tracker with non-bugs.

>> The basic issue is that setting a default font in my init file doesn't seem 
>> to work. However, executing the same
>> code in the scratch buffer after boot does set the font. This problem was 
>> encountered today after pulling from
>> current HEAD. The previous version, from just after eglot was merged, works 
>> fine, so it seems to be due to
>> something which has changed in the last couple of weeks. 
>
> The only change since 83fbda715973f57dc49fe0 that could be somehow
> relevant is the one that touches the support for XSETTINGS on some
> configurations.  (If you had reported this as a bug, the bug report
> would have included the details of your configuration, and I could
> then see if those changes could be relevant, instead of
> hypothesizing.)  If that is indeed the offending changeset, then I
> guess the issue has something to do with your system-wide font
> settings.
>
> In any case, bisection would be appreciated.
>

OK, will try to bisect further and if it turns out to not be a local
configuration problem or I cannot identify the cause, will log a bug
report.