From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>, 2504@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: bug#2504: 23.0.90; new-frame => "no font backend available."
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:36:27 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A94BEB.80304@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r61js7m1.fsf@boostpro.com>
David Abrahams wrote:
> I think MacOS Emacs isn't very resilient to customizations for other
> platforms that should be ignored. For example, my
>
> default-frame-alist
>
> is
>
> ((menu-bar-lines . 1) (font-backend . "xft") (font . "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10.5") (tool-bar-lines . 0))
>
> But `M-x new-frame' causes emacs to report "no font backend available"
> without opening a new window.
>
This is no different than setting (font-backend . "garbage") on any
platform. If you have platform specific settings in your .emacs which
you want to share between platforms, then you need to make them conditional.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-28 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-28 0:55 bug#2504: 23.0.90; new-frame => "no font backend available." David Abrahams
2009-02-28 14:36 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2009-02-28 22:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-01 0:45 ` David Abrahams
2019-10-31 18:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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