From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jai Dayal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: font-use-system-font not available Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:31:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zjkbvca3.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395937914 9768 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2014 16:31:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:31:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: "W. Greenhouse" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 27 17:32:01 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 1WTDDk-0000fD-Bp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:32:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTDDj-0002TM-RE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51033) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTDDV-0002Sh-Gn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:31:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTDDU-0000d6-9d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ve0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c01::236]:44826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTDDU-0000cs-5P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ve0-f182.google.com with SMTP id jw12so4356450veb.41 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:31:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=RmCoVbQOqSJy8J86cs3RoP1/72WmzP0RjGIUYlnaHbc=; b=sysh1fkIigr8DNXN1dr6+pQur14DYkZikajEOvAddN+fGfTT14KVn5FedgXUsUHso/ B0NFcvXY2rYMPFzM6FVTb6KJ+RELy201y+UpZ6uq34hM+hvrieU4UHM4PboMLc+WBuB4 tFQcr5mdSU0wla6ZIEnjSDKlsBQiFtHXG2txs7MKCdAxnO7qxtepQPa7nC2qcxC3mEhV fo7E66lmcJYkXJPsaJ7QjzJTA90IO2jAE9ap0gkbs531+707xesQYH9alyp5hsF/6nH5 RmiFhg10H+X+NXZJ25MjUkwwJjMIKsov5NYZDRpxJAr/JRBOX2hcc9bZ9zipz2sdztKd 4M/Q== X-Received: by 10.52.241.106 with SMTP id wh10mr1874414vdc.16.1395937903511; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.221.42.10 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:31:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87zjkbvca3.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400c:c01::236 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.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@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96787 Archived-At: 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 wrote: > 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". > > >