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: Visual font looping setup Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 05:42:50 +0200 Message-ID: <83pn46xdj9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lfevztlq.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7pjyy6z.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1944"; 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 Sun Nov 22 04:43:19 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 1kggHX-0000PW-8g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 04:43:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34006 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kggHW-0000YZ-AH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 22:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49346) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kggHD-0000YB-N0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 22:42:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40275) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kggHD-0007P8-Ex for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 22:42:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1488 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kggHC-0003vG-U7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 22:42:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from David Masterson on Sat, 21 Nov 2020 16:53:54 -0800) 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:125466 Archived-At: > From: David Masterson > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 16:53:54 -0800 > > >> S-mouse-1 opens up same dialog. > > > > I guess the toolkit which you used to build Emacs doesn't have a > > well-designed font selection dialog. > > > > Do these commands invoke mouse-select-font or x-select-font on your > > system? > > I have the same issue and we had this discussion several months back. > My personal build of Emacs v26.3 used the LUCID toolkit and doesn't > support XWidgets. I tried installing GTK on my Chromebook (in the Linux > VM), but I couldn't get the Emacs build process to find/use it (helpful > hints?) > > Perhaps the Emacs Info pages need a small discussion on fonts and the > functions to use (beyond menu-select-font) and their expected effects? > For instance, more information about mouse-select-font for people who > can't (or won't) install GTK. Feel free to start a discussion on emacs-devel, or submit a feature-request bug report.