Re: 23.0.60; peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:weight . r)

[Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:54:07 +0900 Kenichi Handa <handa@ni.aist.go.jp> wrote:

> In article <874peeu3yd.fsf@escher.local.home>, Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> I just did an update from the unicode-2 branch and built with make
>> bootstrap successfully.  But when I start Emacs with -Q, no frame opens
>> and the shell returns this message: peculiar error: "invalid font
>> property", (:weight . r)
>
> It seems that the parsing of XLFD failed.
>
> [...]
>> Lisp Backtrace:
>> "font-spec" (0xbfbfaaa4)
>> "apply" (0xbfbfab88)
>> "x-complement-fontset-spec" (0xbfbfacd4)
>> "create-fontset-from-fontset-spec" (0xbfbfae14)
>> "create-fontset-from-x-resource" (0xbfbfaf54)
>
> Please show me how you set X resource for fontsets.

I don't have set X resources in my home directory.  I'm running KDE
using the gtk-qt engine for GTK apps, and in my personal settings for
this engine I have the option "Use my KDE fonts in GTK applications"
set, but I'm afraid I don't know how they are set.  As a test I created
~/.Xresources with a setting for Emacs.font, ran xrdb on it and then
invoked unicode Emacs, but it still just returned the peculiar error
message (Emacs from CVS trunk did use that font, so I know it is valid).
Can you tell me what I should do to make sure a certain font is set for
unicode Emacs from outside of Emacs?

Steve Berman