bug#40419: 26.3; Custom font face not respected even after saving options to .emacs

bug#40419: 26.3; Custom font face not respected even after saving options to .emacs

[Samuel Falvo II]

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From: kc5tja@arrl.net (Samuel A. Falvo II)
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: 26.3; Custom font face not respected even after saving options to
.emacs
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1.  Launch Emacs under Pop_OS! 64-bit Linux.
2.  M-x menu-set-font
3.  Select your favorite font of choice (in my case, Pet Me 2Y Medium).
4.  Select Options >> Save Options
5.  C-x C-f ~/.emacs  and make sure the file both exists and contains
the preferred font setting.
6.  C-x C-c to exit out of Emacs.
7.  Re-launch Emacs.
8.  Observe **brief** moment in minibuffer when preferred font is in
effect, but then
reverts back to system default.


In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.11)
 of 2019-09-23, modified by Debian built on lgw01-amd64-032
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12005000
System Description: Pop!_OS 19.10

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Samuel A. Falvo II

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bug#40419: 26.3; Custom font face not respected even after saving options to .emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Samuel Falvo II <sam.falvo@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 13:12:46 -0700
> 
> 1.  Launch Emacs under Pop_OS! 64-bit Linux.
> 2.  M-x menu-set-font
> 3.  Select your favorite font of choice (in my case, Pet Me 2Y Medium).
> 4.  Select Options >> Save Options
> 5.  C-x C-f ~/.emacs  and make sure the file both exists and contains
> the preferred font setting.
> 6.  C-x C-c to exit out of Emacs.
> 7.  Re-launch Emacs.
> 8.  Observe **brief** moment in minibuffer when preferred font is in effect, but then
> reverts back to system default.

This probably means something else resets the font after startup.  Do
you have anything else in your ~/.emacs, besides the font setting
saved by the above recipe? could those additional customizations be
the culprit?  Or maybe you have some system resources that require
specific fonts to be used by Emacs?

FWIW, I cannot reproduce this, the saved font setting is used when I
restart Emacs.

Thanks.

bug#40419: 26.3; Custom font face not respected even after saving options to .emacs

[Noam Postavsky]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Samuel Falvo II <sam.falvo@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 13:12:46 -0700
>> 
>> 1.  Launch Emacs under Pop_OS! 64-bit Linux.
>> 2.  M-x menu-set-font
>> 3.  Select your favorite font of choice (in my case, Pet Me 2Y Medium).
>> 4.  Select Options >> Save Options
>> 5.  C-x C-f ~/.emacs  and make sure the file both exists and contains
>> the preferred font setting.
>> 6.  C-x C-c to exit out of Emacs.
>> 7.  Re-launch Emacs.
>> 8.  Observe **brief** moment in minibuffer when preferred font is in effect, but then
>> reverts back to system default.
>
> This probably means something else resets the font after startup.  Do
> you have anything else in your ~/.emacs, besides the font setting
> saved by the above recipe? could those additional customizations be
> the culprit?  Or maybe you have some system resources that require
> specific fonts to be used by Emacs?
>
> FWIW, I cannot reproduce this, the saved font setting is used when I
> restart Emacs.

Maybe this is Bug#25228 "custom-set-faces from init file ~/.emacs
ignored"?  Does adding

    (define-key special-event-map [config-changed-event] 'ignore)

to .emacs help?

bug#40419: 26.3; Custom font face not respected even after saving options to .emacs

[Samuel Falvo II]

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I'll apply that change and see what happens.

Unfortunately, while it was a repeatable issue when I filed the bug, it
strangely started respecting my preferences as of mid-day yesterday.  Could
be a race condition of some kind?  I'll add the (define-key) and hopefully
it'll more consistently maintain preferences.

Thanks for looking into things.  It's appreciated!


On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 5:19 PM Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: Samuel Falvo II <sam.falvo@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 13:12:46 -0700
> >>
> >> 1.  Launch Emacs under Pop_OS! 64-bit Linux.
> >> 2.  M-x menu-set-font
> >> 3.  Select your favorite font of choice (in my case, Pet Me 2Y Medium).
> >> 4.  Select Options >> Save Options
> >> 5.  C-x C-f ~/.emacs  and make sure the file both exists and contains
> >> the preferred font setting.
> >> 6.  C-x C-c to exit out of Emacs.
> >> 7.  Re-launch Emacs.
> >> 8.  Observe **brief** moment in minibuffer when preferred font is in
> effect, but then
> >> reverts back to system default.
> >
> > This probably means something else resets the font after startup.  Do
> > you have anything else in your ~/.emacs, besides the font setting
> > saved by the above recipe? could those additional customizations be
> > the culprit?  Or maybe you have some system resources that require
> > specific fonts to be used by Emacs?
> >
> > FWIW, I cannot reproduce this, the saved font setting is used when I
> > restart Emacs.
>
> Maybe this is Bug#25228 "custom-set-faces from init file ~/.emacs
> ignored"?  Does adding
>
>     (define-key special-event-map [config-changed-event] 'ignore)
>
> to .emacs help?
>
>
>

-- 
Samuel A. Falvo II

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