font setting stopped working in Emacs 22 (Ubuntu)

font setting stopped working in Emacs 22 (Ubuntu)

[bramble]

I'd been setting my Emacs font using the following in my ~/.Xresources
file:

emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-
iso10646-1

I'm using Ubuntu GNU/Linux, and recently updated to 7.10, and then
removed the emacs snapshot package and installed the plain emacs
package (which is version 22 now).

Trouble is, the font reverted back to courier. How do I get my nice
small 6x13 font back?

Re: font setting stopped working in Emacs 22 (Ubuntu)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.10.2007 um 00:46 schrieb bramble:

> I'm using Ubuntu GNU/Linux, and recently updated to 7.10, and then
> removed the emacs snapshot package and installed the plain emacs
> package (which is version 22 now).

What do you mean with ``plain´´?

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Re: font setting stopped working in Emacs 22 (Ubuntu)

[Jason Rumney]

On 24 Oct, 23:46, bramble <cadet.bram...@gmail.com> wrote:

> emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-
> iso10646-1

Emacs-22 requires a Latin-1 font for displaying ASCII text, so change
the final iso10646-1 to iso8859-1. If you don't have an exact match,
use xlsfonts to see how close you can get.

Re: font setting stopped working in Emacs 22 (Ubuntu)

[bramble]

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On Oct 25, 5:51 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 25.10.2007 um 00:46 schrieb bramble:
>
> > I'm using Ubuntu GNU/Linux, and recently updated to 7.10, and then
> > removed the emacs snapshot package and installed the plain emacs
> > package (which is version 22 now).
>
> What do you mean with ``plain´´?
>

Whoops. Sorry about not being clear. The previous version of Ubuntu
had 2 different emacs deb packages available. Emacs 21, and one with
"snapshot" in the package name (I think it was emacs-snapshot-gtk)
which was version 22.

After updating Ubuntu to the current version, my system still had that
older "snapshot" package installed. So, I used aptitude to remove/
purge it, and then installed the regular ("plain") "emacs" package
(which depends on and pulls in the "emacs22-gtk" package).

Re: font setting stopped working in Emacs 22 (Ubuntu)

[bramble]

On Oct 25, 6:14 am, Jason Rumney <jasonrum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 Oct, 23:46, bramble <cadet.bram...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-
> > iso10646-1
>
> Emacs-22 requires a Latin-1 font for displaying ASCII text, so change
> the final iso10646-1 to iso8859-1. If you don't have an exact match,
> use xlsfonts to see how close you can get.

Interestingly enough, it turns out that it works with the original
font name (with the 10646 in it).

I got it to work by changing "emacs.font:" in my ~/.Xresources to
"emacs22.font". There seems to be an Ubuntu bug here. Even though I
install the main Emacs 22 package named "emacs", and it grabs its
dependency (emacs22-gtk), I don't get an executable named "emacs". I
only get one named "emacs22".

Thanks.

Re: font setting stopped working in Emacs 22 (Ubuntu)

[Johan Bockgård]

bramble <cadet.bramble@gmail.com> writes:

> I got it to work by changing "emacs.font:" in my ~/.Xresources to
> "emacs22.font". There seems to be an Ubuntu bug here. Even though I
> install the main Emacs 22 package named "emacs", and it grabs its
> dependency (emacs22-gtk), I don't get an executable named "emacs". I
> only get one named "emacs22".

You could use "Emacs.font" to define the resource regardless of the name
of the executable.

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Re: font setting stopped working in Emacs 22 (Ubuntu)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.10.2007 um 14:55 schrieb bramble:

> The previous version of Ubuntu
> had 2 different emacs deb packages available. Emacs 21, and one with
> "snapshot" in the package name (I think it was emacs-snapshot-gtk)
> which was version 22.

"Snapshot" says that this package has been made from an "unreleased"  
software, at some moment taken off some CVS or SVN or GIT or whatever  
repository – like a snapshot. A "plain" release is made of released  
software.

GNU Emacs examples: while GNU Emacs 21.1 was released, CVS had  
21.3.50 in development;
                     while GNU Emacs 21.2 was released, CVS had  
22.0.50 in development;
                     while GNU Emacs 22.1 is released, CVS has  
23.0.50 in development ...

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Re: font setting stopped working in Emacs 22 (Ubuntu)

[Sven Joachim]

bramble <cadet.bramble@gmail.com> writes:

> I got it to work by changing "emacs.font:" in my ~/.Xresources to
> "emacs22.font". There seems to be an Ubuntu bug here. Even though I
> install the main Emacs 22 package named "emacs", and it grabs its
> dependency (emacs22-gtk), I don't get an executable named "emacs". I
> only get one named "emacs22".

You seem to have a problem with the "emacs" alternative that has
likely been caused by removing the preferred flavor
(emacs-snapshot?).  See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433567 for an
instance of this problem.

I'd suggest you try "sudo update-alternatives --auto emacs" and see if
this fixes the problem.

Regards,
        Sven