Re: using emacs with nx

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>]

Am 29.07.2013 um 15:35 schrieb Andrew Michael Levin:

> My laptop is running windows. I don't know what or where xfontsel,
> xlsfonts, or libfontconfig are. How can I check these things?

These things are UNIX things. They get installed when you install X Windows or X11 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System).

> 
> Is there a way to make emacs not use these fonts?

Find at least one tool that can tell you which fonts are available in that "nx" environment. Then choose something useful from this set and make GNU Emacs use fonts from this set. If the Emacs running natively in MS and that in the "nx" environment are using the same init file, then you can check whether these Emacsen see that they are running in either this or that environment. If this works you can optimise the init file to make GNU Emacs use optimised (font) settings for this or that environment.

In X11 X resources are set up to tell GNU Emacs and other X clients which fonts, colours, geometries, etc. to use. On non-UNIX platforms maybe GNU Emacs is also reading the file .Xresources or .Xdefaults, if it exists in the HOME directory. The contents of these files can be, for example:

Emacs.font:               	Lucida Sans Typewriter:autohint=true:antialias=true:style=Regular:size=7
Emacs.menu*.font:               Vera Humana 95:style=Bold:size=7
Emacs.pane.menubar.font:        Libris ADF Std:size=7:autohint=true:antialias=true:style=Bold
Emacs.pane.menubar.*.fontList:  -*-luxi sans-bold-r-normal-*-*-60-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
Emacs.pane.menubar.popup_*.*.fontList:  -*-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal-*-*-70-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
Emacs.menu*.fontList:           -*-utopia-bold-r-*-*-*-55-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
Emacs.dialog*.font:             -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-*-sans-6-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
Emacs.dialog*.font:             Lucida Sans Typewriter:autohint=true:antialias=true:style=Regular:size=7
Emacs.dialog*background:        RosyBrown4
Emacs.dialog*foreground:        SpringGreen3

(The font names containing the element "-*" are those delivered by the X server, the others are served by libfontconfig.)

If it does not read these files, then it's possible to launch GNU Emacs with arguments that "artificially" set X resource values: emacs -xrm 'Emacs.menu*.font: Vera Humana 95:style=Bold:size=7'. Or how ever this can be done in MS or "nx" environments!

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