From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23, Debian and the "fixed" font Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:41:55 +1100 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <87wrkpaqss.fsf@rapttech.com.au> References: <87bp219jcf.fsf@rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298598032 14915 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2011 01:40:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:40:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 25 02:40:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PsmfS-0001TJ-JV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:40:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54072 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PsmfS-0007qY-12 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:40:26 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Us0cBuGjCAMKQPmIM79oP/O7WaU= Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 6155a323.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=8X>hBoCbjYb=3UWcM[dT7dL?0kYOcDh@jSBc; \8ijUdklF 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:79458 Archived-At: Jorgen Grahn writes: > >> The "fixed" font is not a real font - it is an font alias that points to >> a real font. It could be that this alias is not defined in your system. > > It is -- xterm happily uses it. If it's unavailable to GTK is another > question. Unhappily, I have come to expect to have different > selections of fonts in different applications over the years. If it's > a configuration problem, it's one all my Linux installations have had. > > And "fixed" /is/ real in the sense that it's the same, pixel by pixel, > on every system I've used for the last 20 years. (Except that time > when they changed the shape of ' in some ancient X11 release.) > OK, what you can try is use xfontsel to select the appropriate fixed font. The 'fixed' font is not a real font - it is an alias for a fixed width font with a certain specification. The xfontsel program allows you to select the various font specification components. For example -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-*-120-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1 will give you a fixed font with a medium weight and regular slant of 12pt size for the iso8859-1 encoding at a 100pdi resolution. Putting this in your .Xresources or runing emacs -fn "-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-*-120-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1" should give you a fixed width font. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au