From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Javier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23, Debian and the "fixed" font Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:06:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <78EBB08A-6B0F-4CEB-88F6-522661506453@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298828216 11607 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2011 17:36:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:36:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 27 18:36:52 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PtkY7-0000pN-LI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:36:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PtkY6-0007MF-Qe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:36:51 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.84.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.wiretrip.org!news2.arglkargh.de!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: gt1om3GlbwMDT0tpsQ27zA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/1.9.6-20100522 ("Lochruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.32-5-686 (i686)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185377 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:35:49 -0500 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:79534 Archived-At: 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 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Peter Dyballa 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.) >