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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



  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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