Font choice and anti-aliasing with 'emacs -Q' and 'emacs -q'

Font choice and anti-aliasing with 'emacs -Q' and 'emacs -q'

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

I have an interesting phenomenon with GNU Emacs 23.1.50 from CVS on  
my Mac in X11 (old XFree86 4.4.0 X server, OS is Tiger, 10.4.11).  
Compiled with GTK and launched from the build directory with -Q it  
uses the font

	    xft:-unknown-Monospace-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-0- 
iso10646-1 (#x2A)

via the XFT font backend (the font probably is set somewhere in GTK,  
the X resources are set as:

	Emacs.Font:	-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1
	Emacs.FontBackend:	x,ftx

plus some more, of which not all are followed (probably due to  
internal GTK settings). When I launch GNU Emacs with -q and rename  
the system's and my own init file so that none is found, it uses

	    x:-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-m-60- 
iso10646-1 (#x2A)

and follows the X resources. Is this normal behaviour or rather a bug?

--
Greetings

   Pete

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the  
impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Re: Font choice and anti-aliasing with 'emacs -Q' and 'emacs -q'

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:11, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:

> and follows the X resources. Is this normal behaviour or rather a bug?

If this is a recent build, note that about five days ago -Q was
changed to ignore also X resources. -q is not affected. See etc/NEWS.

    Juanma