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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: joakim@verona.se
Cc: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: how to promote the new font backend?
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:26:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C2BD36.4020804@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sksdfb8m.fsf@verona.se>

joakim@verona.se wrote:
> Recently I reinstalled my primary workstation with fc9. I noticed lots
> of weird font issues with emacs.
>   

What kinds of issues? They might indicate a bug.

> How do we provide nice font defaults for new users?
>   

The default font if XFT is configured is monospace-12. Most fontconfig 
installations will map this to a modern font capable of using 
antialiasing. Does your installation fail to map it, or map it to a 
bitmap font?






  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-06 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-06 17:14 how to promote the new font backend? joakim
2008-09-06 17:26 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-09-06 18:29   ` joakim
2008-09-07  5:45     ` Miles Bader

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