From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: set-default-font Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:24:18 +0300 Message-ID: <835z94339p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <855b886e-8bb5-caad-ebc5-4f14b7da5765@mousecar.com> <83k0xm4m34.fsf@gnu.org> <83imd64luu.fsf@gnu.org> <69cb6867-47c2-fd29-756e-9511f59fd4f2@mousecar.com> <20200825204907.GF3788@scrozzle> <82c7689a-18c8-4a3d-9291-468c18621774@mousecar.com> <83bliy3qrk.fsf@gnu.org> <838se03fcg.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34626"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 27 10:24:49 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kBDDF-0008sI-0z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:24:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43006 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBDDE-00075w-3e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:24:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43820) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBDCx-00075j-Vq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:24:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48570) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBDCx-0004QR-NE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:24:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2176 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kBDCw-0004Bt-QE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:24:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from David Masterson on Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:47:54 -0700) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123802 Archived-At: > From: David Masterson > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:47:54 -0700 > > First, I had been using a prebuilt Emacs v26.3 on Debian > (Chromebook). I'm not sure how that version was built, but > set-default-font did popup an easy font selection that (to me) made > sense. I could scroll through (lots of) available with an example of > what the font would look like before I chose the font. You can see the details of that version's configuration if you invoke report-emacs-bug (don't send the bug report, just look at the build description it produces). > Second, I had a problem with the prebuilt and thought I'd try building > Emacs myself. After getting the needed libraries built, it built and > works fine. The main difference is that set-default-font seems to have > completely changed to a popup for "Font Menu" with 3 items (Misc, > Courier, and Fontset). I don't believe have courier fonts loaded, so > I'm not sure why thats there. All 3 items have submenus with no > examples of the fonts. I think this is a Lucid style popup. This is my > configuration for Emacs (no options given to the configure script): Maybe the original build was with GTK, and this one, with Lucid, doesn't have the nice font selection dialog? What you describe is the Emacs's internal fallback which shows fonts known in advance to exist, with no relation to the font back-end in use. This "not nice" menu is shown if x-select-font function is not available.