Re: Font problem on git master

[İsmail Dönmez]

Hi!

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:39 AM Robert Pluim <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:20:01 +0100, İsmail Dönmez <address@hidden> said:
>
>     İsmail> Hi,
>     İsmail> Since the switch to cairo, I cannot set any font at all. Here is 
> what
>     İsmail> happens, running
>
>     >> emacs -Q
>
>     İsmail> This gives me a nice mono font which I suspect is the one set by 
> Gnome
>     İsmail> (Consolas at pixel size 12)
>
> You can check by doing 'C-u C-x =', which will pop up a buffer showing
> what font is being used.

It's indeed Consolas, albeit not using the fontconfig syntax:

"-MS  -Consolas-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1"

>
>     İsmail> If I remove all my emacs config, so no ~/.emacs ~/.config/emacs, 
> and
>     İsmail> run emacs (without -Q) then I get a non-scalable looking font. 
> Trying
>     İsmail> to select any font using the font selection results in:
>
>     İsmail> "Font not available: #<font-spec nil nil Consolas nil nil normal
>     İsmail> normal nil 12.0 nil nil nil nil>"
>
>     İsmail> which I have to admit, doesn't help me :)
>
> Hmm, do you have only the bitmapped version of Consolas?

Consolas is a TTF only font.

>     İsmail> Also, I used to have the following in my config file:
>
>     İsmail> (setq default-frame-alist
>     İsmail>       '((font . "Consolas-13:antialias=natural")
>     İsmail>         (vertical-scroll-bars . nil)))
>
>     İsmail> which results in "*ERROR*: Font ‘Consolas-13:antialias=natural’ 
> is not defined"
>
>     İsmail> This is all on openSUSE Tumbleweed (using Andreas Schwab's awesome
>     İsmail> build from 
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:AndreasSchwab:emacs:master/emacs)
>     İsmail> with cairo 1.16.0
>
> My WAG is that you donʼt have (m)any scalable fonts installed, just
> bitmapped ones.

That can't be because I have 500+ TTF fonts installed on my system.
Also, mind you emacs 26 is working just fine.

Regards,
ismail