font change not 'taking'

font change not 'taking'

[Bucky Goldberg]

I hope this is the right place to post my question (as opposed to a
Linux specific group) but here goes: I can't convince Emacs (22.0.50
from CVS) to change to a font I really like, "console", which other
applications, in particular Konsole, seem to have no trouble rendering.
 Here's a screenshot of the situation:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=224751841&size=o

Notice how the font in the 'xfontsel' application and the Konsole
window  - the one I'm trying to get Emacs to use - is still different
from what Emacs is displaying after executing the (set-default-font
"-*-console-*-*-*-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")  command shown in the scratch
buffer.  The 'console' font does not show up in the pop-up menu when
when I shift-left-click in Emacs.  I've tried lots of combinations in
place of the wildcards in the font selection string, with no real luck.
Any tips?

Thanks

Re: font change not 'taking'

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.08.2006 um 23:59 schrieb Bucky Goldberg:

> Notice how the font in the 'xfontsel' application and the Konsole
> window  - the one I'm trying to get Emacs to use - is still different
> from what Emacs is displaying after executing the (set-default-font
> "-*-console-*-*-*-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")  command shown in the scratch
> buffer.  The 'console' font does not show up in the pop-up menu when
> when I shift-left-click in Emacs.  I've tried lots of combinations in
> place of the wildcards in the font selection string, with no real  
> luck.
> Any tips?

Could be you need to add some more keys – weight, slant, styles,  
registry, encoding ... for me it worked at once to switch to another  
font (Bitstream Vera Sans Mono) with (set-default-font "-*-bitstream  
vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1").


To see some more fonts in the Font Menu *you* need to add them (or  
contribute a routine that finds automatically system monospaced fonts  
on a dozen windowing architectures)! The object to edit is x-fixed- 
font-alist. You could also create new fontsets ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

Upgraded:  Didn't work the first time.