From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Cc: "İsmail Dönmez" <ismail@i10z.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font problem on git master
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:21:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2o8uyrtcz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p91h80qkv0n.fsf@google.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Mon, 20 Jan 2020 07:27:52 -0800")
>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 07:27:52 -0800, "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> said:
TVR> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
TVR> I ran into a similar issue over the weekend after building emacs from
TVR> Git.
TVR> I had inherited these lines in .Xresources from way back:
TVR> Emacs.FontBackend: ftcrhb,xft,x
It failed with ftcrhb as the first item? Are you building Emacs with
Cairo but without HarfBuzz?
TVR> Emacs*font: -adobe-Utopia-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
TVR> After the update/build, emacs refused to start in GUI mode, -- emacs -nw
TVR> worked, and it displayed the font backend error when started as emacs
TVR> under X.
TVR> I worked around the problem by commenting out the emacs.font line and it
TVR> started with Adobe Courier.
TVR> This morning, I updated the font backend line as suggested by you, and
TVR> now I get over 3,000+ fonts -- and uncommenting the Adobe Utopia line
TVR> does not cause the error.
What did you update it to? If itʼs
ftcrhb,x
are you now using the 'x' font backend?
TVR> Could we update the News file with details on what font backends are
TVR> now recommended?
Done.
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-20 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-20 10:20 Font problem on git master İsmail Dönmez
2020-01-20 10:39 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-20 10:45 ` İsmail Dönmez
2020-01-20 11:00 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-20 11:26 ` İsmail Dönmez
2020-01-20 12:38 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-20 12:53 ` İsmail Dönmez
2020-01-20 13:52 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-20 14:35 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-20 15:27 ` T.V Raman
2020-01-20 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-20 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-20 18:33 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-20 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-20 16:21 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-01-20 18:22 ` T.V Raman
2020-01-20 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-20 16:34 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-20 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-20 18:05 ` İsmail Dönmez
2020-01-20 19:33 ` Andreas Schwab
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