From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jorgen Grahn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23, Debian and the "fixed" font Date: 28 Feb 2011 18:08:34 GMT 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-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298941270 14155 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2011 01:01:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 01:01:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 02:01:06 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 1PuDxZ-0001uV-KZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:01:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60867 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PuDxY-0001fo-Sq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:01:04 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 46 Original-X-Trace: individual.net AkBbwvM/s8yo0yVLh/rDRQyFibx/xxavLh1EX/IyfX7412TOXa Cancel-Lock: sha1:rJAPPTZPShFyRHAL7ZqIbAVW+Qw= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185423 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:00:03 -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:79597 Archived-At: On Sun, 2011-02-27, Javier wrote: > 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.) Ah -- I saw the emacs23-lucid package, but assumed it referred to Lucid Emacs, i.e. XEmacs. > I think the first message refers to these fonts: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_(typeface) That was indeed what I meant. Thanks. ... > 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. It's not *that* bad. Like I wrote elsewhere, xterm and friends use "fixed", For xterm, my normal X resource setting is enough: xterm*font: fixed /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn O o .