From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-default-font
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 12:52:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2sgc7jb43.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SN6PR01MB4493FCA34424284F9F93195B9B520@SN6PR01MB4493.prod.exchangelabs.com> (David Masterson's message of "Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:39:38 -0700")
>>>>> On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:39:38 -0700, David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> said:
David> David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> writes:
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Maybe the original build was with GTK, and this one, with Lucid,
>>> doesn't have the nice font selection dialog? What you describe is the
>>> Emacs's internal fallback which shows fonts known in advance to exist,
>>> with no relation to the font back-end in use. This "not nice" menu is
>>> shown if x-select-font function is not available.
>>
>> Ah, I'll investigate that. Sounds like I need to install another
>> library. Thanks.
David> Followup: from the code in xfns.c, it appears that x-select-font is only
David> defined if you are using GTK and FreeType. With Lucid, you get the
David> internal fallback.
David> Maybe I'll try rebuilding with GTK.
If youʼre feeling doubly adventurous, install the cairo-dev packages
as well, and configure --with-cairo (on some more recent Linux
distributions, installing gtk-dev gets you cairo-dev automatically).
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-28 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-25 16:54 set-default-font ken
2020-08-25 17:13 ` set-default-font Stefan Kangas
2020-08-25 18:27 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-25 18:32 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-25 20:38 ` set-default-font ken
2020-08-25 20:49 ` set-default-font 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2020-08-25 22:15 ` set-default-font ken
2020-08-26 5:44 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27 1:59 ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-27 4:03 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27 4:47 ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-27 8:24 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 2:07 ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-28 2:39 ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-28 6:43 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 10:52 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-08-28 23:38 ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-29 8:37 ` set-default-font Robert Pluim
2020-08-26 5:42 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-26 5:40 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
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