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From: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: "İsmail Dönmez" <ismail@i10z.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font problem on git master
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:22:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p91d0bekmxr.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p91h80qkv0n.fsf@google.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Mon, 20 Jan 2020 07:27:52 -0800")

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"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:

correction: earlier Xresources did not include ftcrhb as a font back-end
 which is what caused the error.
I found the right value ftcrhb,ftcr,x from the  elisp info manual --
 it's documented in frame.texi found by grepping the git logs.
The > Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
> I ran into a similar issue over the weekend after building emacs from
> Git.
>
> I had inherited these lines in .Xresources from way back:
> Emacs.FontBackend:	ftcrhb,xft,x
> Emacs*font:	-adobe-Utopia-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
>
> After the update/build, emacs refused to start in GUI mode, -- emacs -nw
> worked, and it displayed the font backend error when started as emacs
> under X.
>
> I worked around the problem by commenting out the emacs.font line and it
> started with Adobe Courier.
>
> This morning, I updated the font backend line as suggested by you, and
> now I get over 3,000+ fonts -- and uncommenting the Adobe Utopia line
> does not cause the error.
>
> Could we update the News file with  details on what font backends are
> now recommended?
>
>
>>>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:52:34 +0100, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> said:
>>     Robert> If all else fails, can you run 'strace emacs' with your normal config
>>     Robert> to see if it0¶3s loading some site-specific configuration files? Those
>>     Robert> might be messing with the font setup.
>>
>> In fact, looking through Andreas' package repo, I see it includes an
>> app-defaults.Emacs that does:
>>
>>     Emacs.FontBackend:		xft,x
>>
>> which is going to cause problems on a cairo-enabled build. Is it
>> possible for you to remove that setting, or try something like
>>
>>     Emacs.FontBackend:		ftcrhb,xft,x
>>
>> or
>>
>>     Emacs.FontBackend:		ftcrhb,x
>>
>>
>> Robert
>>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-20 18:22 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
2020-01-20 18:22                   ` T.V Raman [this message]
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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