From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org Development" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs fullscreen and sizes in frame parameters
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:42:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gi3ruqk.fsf@engster.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2B4B8654-6ED8-4A9A-90B3-49E8A683C39A@mit.edu> (chad's message of "Sun, 9 Jun 2013 05:47:26 -0700")
chad writes:
> On 09 Jun 2013, at 02:40, David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote:
>
>> And yes, I'm working on X11. So I'm now back at how to choose the right
>> font for a real fullscreen frame. I guess "5x8" should be OK for almost
>> all common resolutions, but I can't be sure. So the question remains if
>> I can somehow fake this... The optimum would be a fake font with 1 pixel
>> height. :-)
>
> You might see if modern X11 systems still recognize the font `nil2'.
Actually yes, nil2 is still there, but I cannot use it in Emacs for some
reason. 'xterm -fn nil2' works, and I see that nil2 is an alias for
-misc-nil-medium-r-normal--2-20-75-75-c-10-misc-fontspecific
but Emacs tells me
'Font `nil2' is not defined'.
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-09 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-08 22:04 Emacs fullscreen and sizes in frame parameters David Engster
2013-06-09 2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-09 6:47 ` David Engster
2013-06-09 7:24 ` David Engster
2013-06-09 9:12 ` David Engster
2013-06-09 9:14 ` Jan Djärv
2013-06-09 9:40 ` David Engster
2013-06-09 12:47 ` chad
2013-06-09 15:52 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-06-09 18:42 ` David Engster [this message]
2013-06-10 16:10 ` David Engster
2013-06-09 6:55 ` Jan Djärv
2013-06-09 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
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