bug#623: 23.0.60; ignored font statement in initial-frame-alist

bug#623: 23.0.60; ignored font statement in initial-frame-alist

[Seb]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

With the latest emacs-snapshot below, this customization (customize
interface extract):

 '(initial-frame-alist (quote ((top . 0) (left . 0) (width . 125) (height . 51) (tool-bar-lines . 1) (menu-bar-lines . 1) (scroll-bar-width . 15) (font . "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-15"))))

no longer works (used to since Xft introduction); the 'font' statement
is now ignored, and the initial-frame starts with whatever is in
default-frame-alist.



If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/23.0.60/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)
 of 2008-07-27 on elegiac, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20080727-1)
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10402000
configured using `configure  '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--host' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.60/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.60/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_CA.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  gnus-topic-mode: t
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode: t
  icicle-mode: t
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  erc-stamp-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  msb-mode: t
  global-hl-line-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  cua-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  temp-buffer-resize-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<s-right> <s-left> C-x C-b <down> M n M q <C-home> 
C-s b i t s C-s <up> <C-left> <C-left> <C-left> <C-left> 
C-h v <return> <M-next> C-x 1 <s-right> <down> <down> 
<down> <up> <up> <down> SPC <down> <down> L <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <kp-1> 
<kp-0> <kp-0> <kp-enter> C-s i n i t <up> <up> a i 
n i t i a l - f r a m e - a l i s t SPC f o n t SPC 
s p e c i <C-backspace> s t a t e m e n t SPC i g n 
o r e s <backspace> d C-c C-b H i , <return> <return> 
<C-backspace> W i t h SPC e m a c s <C-backspace> E 
m a c s - s n a p s h o t <C-backspace> <C-backspace> 
e m a c s - s n a p s h o t <menu> b u g <tab> C-a 
C-k C-g C-g C-g <menu> e m a c s - u <tab> <backspace> 
<C-backspace> b u <tab> C-g C-g <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report> i g n o r e d <return> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> C-c C-k y <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> C-c C-k y q <menu> M-p C-g <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<menu> s e n d <tab> <C-backspace> <C-backspace> b 
u g - <tab> C-g C-g C-h k <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report> 
<menu> s e n d - e m a c s - <tab> C-g C-g <menu> r 
e p o r t - e m <tab> b <tab> <return>

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Cheers,

-- 
Seb

bug#623: 23.0.60; ignored font statement in initial-frame-alist

[Chong Yidong]

> With the latest emacs-snapshot below, this customization (customize
> interface extract):
>
>  '(initial-frame-alist (quote ((top . 0) (left . 0) (width . 125) (height . 51) (tool-bar-lines . 1) (menu-bar-lines . 1) (scroll-bar-width . 15) (font . "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-15"))))
>
> no longer works (used to since Xft introduction); the 'font' statement
> is now ignored, and the initial-frame starts with whatever is in
> default-frame-alist.

I can't reproduce this with latest Emacs CVS.  Do you still experience
the problem?

bug#623: 23.0.60; ignored font statement in initial-frame-alist

[Glenn Morris]

This report is being closed because it relates to what is now an old
pretest of Emacs 23.1, and the problem could not be reproduced.
If you still see the problem with the latest release, 23.3, please reply
with as much detail as you can and the report can be re-opened.

Chong Yidong wrote:

> I can't reproduce this with latest Emacs CVS.  Do you still experience
> the problem?