font-use-system-font not available

font-use-system-font not available

[Jai Dayal]

Hi,

I am trying to get the GUI emacs to use the same font as my terminal (the
terminal has "use the system fixed width font" checked).

I've read in the manual
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fonts.html

That I can set font-use-system-font to t, however, that variable seems to
be undefined for me.

I am using Emacs 24.3 on Centos 6.5 with Gnome 2 as my desktop.

Thanks.
Jai

Re: font-use-system-font not available

[W. Greenhouse]

Jai Dayal <dayalsoap-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get the GUI emacs to use the same font as my terminal (the
> terminal has "use the system fixed width font" checked).
>
> I've read in the manual
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fonts.html
>
> That I can set font-use-system-font to t, however, that variable seems to
> be undefined for me.

Note where the manual says "For this to work, Emacs must have been
compiled with Gconf support." Perhaps your Emacs wasn't?

A lower-tech, non-gconfy alternative would be to set both Emacs and
terminal font via X resources, e.g. "*font: foo".

Re: font-use-system-font not available

[Jai Dayal]

Thanks for the reply. I guess I just want Emacs to use whatever the system
font is my terminal uses by default.. I have no idea what that is, so I
guess I'll have to figure out these X settings stuffs.

Jai


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:25 PM, W. Greenhouse <wgreenhouse@riseup.net>wrote:

> Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to get the GUI emacs to use the same font as my terminal (the
> > terminal has "use the system fixed width font" checked).
> >
> > I've read in the manual
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fonts.html
> >
> > That I can set font-use-system-font to t, however, that variable seems to
> > be undefined for me.
>
> Note where the manual says "For this to work, Emacs must have been
> compiled with Gconf support." Perhaps your Emacs wasn't?
>
> A lower-tech, non-gconfy alternative would be to set both Emacs and
> terminal font via X resources, e.g. "*font: foo".
>
>
>