From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>,
emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 2504@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2504: 23.0.90; new-frame => "no font backend available."
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:12:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvprh2xldc.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A94BEB.80304@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:36:27 +0800")
>> 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.
We could make it easier for the users by ignoring invalid font-backends,
so a single setting can work on all platforms.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-28 22:12 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
2009-02-28 22:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-03-01 0:45 ` David Abrahams
2019-10-31 18:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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