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From: "BillJosephson" <billjosephson@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: fatal font problem with emacs
Date: 28 Oct 2006 11:11:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162059110.456641.280210@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.228.1161768081.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>


Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 25.10.2006 um 10:14 schrieb BillJosephson:
>
> > I don't see .xinitrc. But, I don't know what to do with all this.
> > Where
> > to go next, so to speak.
>
> You have somewhere a template for ~/.xinitrc on your system, maybe
> in /etc/X11/xinit ...
>
> When the X server is launched it looks for ~/.xinitrc. If the file
> exists it executes it. By this means you can correct and extend the
> font path, set other time constants or repeat rates or acceleration
> for keyboard or mouse, launch useful X clients and particularly
> choose a Window Manager.
>
> The UNIX help system, i.e. the man and apropos (or man -k) commands,
> can explain more. More resources can be found on the Internet.
>
> If you don't want to learn so much, you can check the look of a font
> in X11 with xfd (or xfontsel) and then invoke GNU Emacs with 'emacs -
> fn <your choice of font> &'. Or you simply filter the output of
> xlsfonts. This way you can find whether the fonts reported exist on
> your system. If they don't, you can select another one to pass on the
> command line.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>
> "A mathematician is a machine that turns coffee into theorems."



Thanks again Pete. I appreciate your help, and will try one more
question. To summarize, I can control what fonts emacs wants to use,
and I can check to see which fonts are on the system. By googling the
terms you mention, I can learn more about how to do this. This is a
great help, thanks very much.

If I wish to take the approach of obtaining the fonts that emacs seems
to want but can not find, where would I go for that?

Again, I sure appreciate your help....

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-28 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-22  2:25 fatal font problem with emacs BillJosephson
2006-10-22 23:41 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.137.1161560471.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-23  1:48   ` BillJosephson
2006-10-23  8:55     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.147.1161593726.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-25  8:14       ` BillJosephson
2006-10-25  9:21         ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]         ` <mailman.228.1161768081.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-28 18:11           ` BillJosephson [this message]
2006-10-28 19:48             ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]             ` <mailman.355.1162064979.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-29  2:40               ` Tim X
2006-11-02 17:59 ` IsraelMendezMartinez
2006-11-04 16:13   ` BillJosephson

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