From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Geralt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting the global default font size. Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:21:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <6FBFC79C-151A-462E-AA20-CFD4FCE7DF30@web.de> <1E27EC2F-11E0-446B-A318-13E2A66CB3C0@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234477331 6228 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2009 22:22:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Help List To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 23:23:27 2009 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 4.50) id 1LXjxn-0003S8-D4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:23:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39569 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXjwT-0002Si-H4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:21:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXjw9-0002SK-2a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:21:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXjw7-0002S0-KL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:21:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41030 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXjw7-0002Rx-DP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:21:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f160.google.com ([209.85.218.160]:65223) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LXjw6-0006ef-UL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:21:35 -0500 Original-Received: by bwz4 with SMTP id 4so1797860bwz.18 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:21:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=y3n9ptWv085LOzcstuZqIsdlVAQnboMvOE+550RtXR8=; b=inLY4/ZpG62bPnkDn9QPBEcofW9q2fmPPRnMRotNPv50NRJzb70MrQU672t8iVG7Fc 6b6gke3JTS/BG6VpLzTHs8YKpL6QDdW18GY7qdmTm8ErnnwvdK4+P6qiZvz8COgioxv0 xuk3n34SbA6tQeZAGw7yDBOuKxOND1coeOw+k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xGJG6ZOqgyG1WjImbsYnN4VUG3+aNtUdxD4m2xecNxNq4/VqU80nEJRUcj2DB/Bo7s LOe5dmfJAtgQr/Sll1pJT/oKApxEWzs3padiIkt+GS4CIXv9Vb5c/39zUvahardc9tSh QjquYKGKUqqi6sWjuhq93pn/ruDi4qZqTNL/8= Original-Received: by 10.181.50.1 with SMTP id c1mr470049bkk.3.1234477293843; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:21:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1E27EC2F-11E0-446B-A318-13E2A66CB3C0@web.de> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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:62092 Archived-At: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 12.02.2009 um 19:49 schrieb Geralt: > >>>> I can find the inconsolata font using fc-cat or fc-list but I can't >>>> find it in xfontsel >>> >>> So you obviously need to install it on your system! >>> >>> >> >> But how? I can select it for example in Opera, or in XFCE's settings >> dialog. > > The X11 server needs the files created by (sudo) mkfontscale and (sudo) > mkfontdir. X11 looks into the directories of font path (xset q). The command > 'xset fp rehash' updates server font information. Xfontsel or xlsfonts are > clients of the X11 server-side fonts sub-system. > > When you're user of the client-side fonts sub-system (fontconfig) fc-cache, > which accepts -v, is your friend. This programme follows a setup given by > configuration files like fonts.conf. > Thanks, turns out that I had to add /usr/share/fonts/inconsolata to xorg.conf with LoadPath, now I can find the font, and I have the following in my .Xresources: Emacs.font: -misc-inconsolata-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 But Emacs is still not using it, list-fontsets is still Fontset: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-default Fontset: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard Do I have to do something special inside Emacs? Oh and just to be sure that's the output of "emacs -Q", so there's no color theme that could change it. Geralt.