Re: Fonts in Ubuntu

[John Bokma]

"amca01@gmail.com" <amca01@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having a lot of difficulty obtaining decent fonts.  So far, if I
> have
>
> Emacs*font: Monospace-10:antialias=true
> Emacs.FontBackend: xft
>
> in my .Xresources file (and then merge that with xrdb), the editing
> and menu fonts are good, but the modeline and minibuffer end up with a
> huge ugly font for which the window is resized horizontally to about
> twice its necessary width.
>
> Does anybody know what might be going on here, and how I can fix it?

I've made the following alias in Ubuntu (back in the 8.10 days, still
using it in 9.10):

  alias gemacs='emacs-snapshot-gtk --font Monospace-9'

and start it with

  gemacs &

without having touched any other files.

Works for me without any problems.

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John Bokma                                                               j3b

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