Re: Emacs 23, Debian and the "fixed" font

[Javier <nospam@nospam.com>]

I think the first message refers to these fonts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_(typeface)

I tried both emacs23-lucid and emacs23-lucid. if I recall correctly the
font behaviour menus do not access those fonts anymore.  In any case 
emacs23-lucid seems to be better in terms of speed.

You might try emacs -fn 10x20, emacs -fn 8x13... the -fn option works
with most X applications: xterm... Maybe the original misc-fixed fonts
are not installed anymore by default in debian because modern
distributions consider them anticuated and no-longer-in-fashion. They
did the same with console fonts and now you have to search into the apt
database to see the old console fonts back.


PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
>>
>> Am 24.02.2011 um 21:57 schrieb Jorgen Grahn:
>>
>>> - If not, can I rebuild emacs with Athena widgets instead of Qt?  I.e.
>>>  is it optional during build?
>>
>>
>> The configure script has no option to use Trolltech's/Nokia's Qt toolkit to
>> build GNU Emacs with. The options are GTK, the default, Motif, Athena/Athena
>> 3D/Lucid, or none (plus some exotic ones on Mac OS X).
> 
> On Debian, you can install the emacs23-lucid package instead of
> emacs23.  (I have emacs23-lucid installed and I have the
> set-default-font function.  I don't know if that's the real reason
> that I have it and you don't.)
>