From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Olive Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs CVS 22.0.90 and XFT fonts on ubuntu-powerbook ? Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:03:08 +0100 Organization: Tele2 Message-ID: <455504ad$0$7397$bf4948fe@news.tele2.nl> References: <874pt7apuv.fsf@tallis.ilo.ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163202074 28456 80.91.229.2 (10 Nov 2006 23:41:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 11 00:41:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GifzJ-0006Ni-TZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:40:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GifzJ-0005qW-59 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.freenet.de!feeder.news-service.com!216.196.110.148.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060914 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <874pt7apuv.fsf@tallis.ilo.ucl.ac.uk> Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: DXC=P<04S3:J4lOP@0DabYlS7F6`Y6aWje^YJ4JTA>[R^MDCT40MP<^42]Fdj_>aBNQ[aHi_42CiJEY>B Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143024 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38642 Archived-At: Bastien wrote: > Hi, > > i just compiled Emacs following the instructions found here: > > > I expected anti-aliased fonts, but > > emacs --enable-font-backend --font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10" > > yields a somewhat disappointing > > "No fonts match: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10" > > I'm sure i'm missing something very obvious, maybe not directly > related to Emacs. I'm running Emacs from within ratpoison - Ubuntu > edgy on a powerbook G4. > > Any hint would be very welcome! > I do not know this version of emacs, but under the standard emacs, you can get a list of the fonts seen by emacs by evaluating the following expression: (print (x-list-fonts "*") (current-buffer)) (to evaluate an expression, type it in a buffer, place the cursor right after it and Press C-x C-e) Olive