Default font when creating a new frame

Default font when creating a new frame

[Christian Kellermann]

Hi,

I am running an (older) emacs snapshot 24.0.90.1 with the GTK frontend
and I have set (set-default-font "Inconsolata-12") in my .emacs. When I
create a new frame with M-x new-frame, the fresh frame will show a
different font, namely Ubuntu Mono which seems to be some default. Why
is set-default-font not enough and what should I use instead?

Kind regards,

Christian

Re: Default font when creating a new frame

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 22.06.2012 um 09:57 schrieb Christian Kellermann:

> Why is set-default-font not enough and what should I use instead?

Maybe because GNU Emacs is using initial-frame-alist and default-frame-alist. This can lead to different settings applied to the first, initial, frame and others applied to the other frames. I think

	(setq initial-frame-alist default-frame-alist)

can make all the same...

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Re: Default font when creating a new frame

[Christian Kellermann]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
>> Why is set-default-font not enough and what should I use instead?
>
> Maybe because GNU Emacs is using initial-frame-alist and
> default-frame-alist. This can lead to different settings applied to
> the first, initial, frame and others applied to the other frames. I
> think
>
> 	(setq initial-frame-alist default-frame-alist)

Hm, I have set this as the first statement in my .emacs but it has no
effect on the font when opening a new frame.

Re: Default font when creating a new frame

[XeCycle]

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Christian Kellermann <ckeen@pestilenz.org> writes:

> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
>>> Why is set-default-font not enough and what should I use instead?
>>
>> Maybe because GNU Emacs is using initial-frame-alist and
>> default-frame-alist. This can lead to different settings applied to
>> the first, initial, frame and others applied to the other frames. I
>> think
>>
>> 	(setq initial-frame-alist default-frame-alist)
>
> Hm, I have set this as the first statement in my .emacs but it has no
> effect on the font when opening a new frame.

Afraid you need to set it at last, after value of
default-frame-alist is settled.

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Re: Default font when creating a new frame

[Christian Kellermann]

XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com> writes:

> Christian Kellermann <ckeen@pestilenz.org> writes:
>
>> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
>>>> Why is set-default-font not enough and what should I use instead?
>>>
>>> Maybe because GNU Emacs is using initial-frame-alist and
>>> default-frame-alist. This can lead to different settings applied to
>>> the first, initial, frame and others applied to the other frames. I
>>> think
>>>
>>> 	(setq initial-frame-alist default-frame-alist)
>>
>> Hm, I have set this as the first statement in my .emacs but it has no
>> effect on the font when opening a new frame.
>
> Afraid you need to set it at last, after value of
> default-frame-alist is settled.

To close this open thread, what I have done to get it work is:

(set-frame-font "Inconsolata-12")
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "Inconsolata-12"))

I guess a variation like

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "Inconsolata-12"))
(setq initial-frame-alist default-frame-alist)

might work also.

Thanks for all your hints!

Christian