From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why can't emacs recognize X fonts? Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:21:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87aaqq1kyz.fsf@rimspace.net> <424C6A04-3435-487C-9985-CAE28C3079E8@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278627721 24142 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2010 22:22:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 22:22:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 09 00:21:58 2010 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 1OWzTZ-00088v-PO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:21:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34868 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWzTZ-0002Us-4K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:21:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46074 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWzT9-0002UK-M9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:21:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWzT8-0005TG-MT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:21:23 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu ([128.122.80.33]:58553) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWzT8-0005T4-Jm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:21:22 -0400 Original-Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4a59b202.dyn.optonline.net [74.89.178.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o68MLLZv018230 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:21:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 9B1E670F93; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:21:21 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Peter Dyballa's message of "Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:53:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:74145 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 08.07.2010 um 22:15 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > >> FontPath set to: > > I don't where, from which programme, this statement comes from, you > can determine the font path the X server uses by running > > xset q > > Besides this a user side font management exists: > libfontconfig. Commands like fc-list, fc-cache, or fc-match are > related to this and files like fonts.conf. The X resource > (Emacs.)FontBackend, which can have the values xft, ftx, or x, I > think, sets the order by which GNU Emacs will check if the fonts > system supplies the specified font. The font backends used can depend > on the libraries found on the system. Thanks for this useful information. As I mentioned in another post my error was simpler (emacs built w/o xft support). I tried both "xset q" and fc-list. Both confirm the fonts. thanks again, allan