On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:08:13 +0900
Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> wrote:

> In article <20080617214153.16043644.taylor@metasyntax.net>, Taylor
> Venable <taylor@metasyntax.net> writes:
> 
> > > Please start Emacs as this:
> > > % EMACS_FONT_LOG=1 emacs -Q
> > > then show me the result of M-x font-show-log RET.
> 
> > Please see attached.
> [...]
> > [2 emacs-font-log.txt <text/plain (7bit)>]
> > xfont-list: -*-DejaVu Sans Mono-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> >   -misc-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--12-*-75-75-m-*-iso8859-1
> >   -misc-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--*-0-0-m-*-iso8859-1
> >   -misc-dejavu sans mono-medium-o-normal--12-*-75-75-m-*-iso8859-1
> >   -misc-dejavu sans mono-medium-o-normal--*-0-0-m-*-iso8859-1
> >   -misc-dejavu sans mono-bold-r-normal--12-*-75-75-m-*-iso8859-1
> >   -misc-dejavu sans mono-bold-r-normal--*-0-0-m-*-iso8859-1
> >   -misc-dejavu sans mono-bold-o-normal--12-*-75-75-m-*-iso8859-1
> >   -misc-dejavu sans mono-bold-o-normal--*-0-0-m-*-iso8859-1
> > ftfont-list: -*-DejaVu Sans Mono-*-iso8859-1
> >   -unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-bold-normal-normal-*-m-0-iso8859-1
> >   -unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-oblique-normal-*-m-0-iso8859-1
> >   -unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-m-0-iso8859-1
> >   -unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-bold-oblique-normal-*-m-0-iso8859-1
> 
> This means that x-backend comes before xft-backend.
> Strange.  Didn't you say that you have:
> 
>   (push '(font-backend xft x) default-frame-alist)
> 
> in your .emacs?

I do.  There is no change in behaviour, and the new output from the
font log is attached (the other one was with "-Q").

> How about this?
> 
> % emacs --xrm 'Emacs*FontBackend: xft x'

I get: "No font backend available" both with and without "-Q".

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