From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: W. Greenhouse Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: font-use-system-font not available Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:25:56 +0000 Message-ID: <87zjkbvca3.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395937602 5782 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2014 16:26:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:26:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Thu Mar 27 17:26:52 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTD8l-0005WS-0R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:26:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54844 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTD8k-0008VI-H2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:26:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49703) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTD8S-0008SG-AT for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTD8M-00074C-H5 for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:26:32 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47555) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTD8M-00073w-9y for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTD8J-0005AI-Qd for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:26:23 +0100 Original-Received: from manning2.torservers.net ([96.44.189.101]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:26:23 +0100 Original-Received: from wgreenhouse by manning2.torservers.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:26:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-dbVV3NMTNubNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: manning2.torservers.net X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NVaphgn6w15yS8FsRX3aEIGCe+0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96786 Archived-At: Jai Dayal 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".