From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "BillJosephson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: fatal font problem with emacs Date: 25 Oct 2006 01:14:57 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1161764097.465879.311440@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <1161483959.649357.321060@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1161568106.026124.25630@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161766204 18495 80.91.229.2 (25 Oct 2006 08:50:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 25 10:50:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GceSU-0006zg-8r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:49:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GceSS-0008GX-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:49:56 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.103.109.227 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1161764102 2789 127.0.0.1 (25 Oct 2006 08:15:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:15:02 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=168.103.109.227; posting-account=h70zOA0AAAAIRGQeOq5XqVEccwqTtd3c Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142644 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38264 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 23.10.2006 um 03:48 schrieb BillJosephson: > > > Thanks, Peter. Frankly, your reply is a bit above my head. How would I > > know if I have X resources set for GNU Emacs? Or how to set an > > existing > > font? > > There is a file ~/.Xdefaults. It is read when X11 launches. The X > resources from this file (and others for this purpose) configure the > look of X clients. > > You know what X11 is? You are working on some BSD or Linux system? > Here the command xlsfonts lists all available fonts for the > configuration active. 'xset -q' shows the font path and other details > of your X11 configuration. ~/.xinitrc is probably the file that sets > up this configuration. > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new > discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." > Isaac Asimov Hi Pete, thanks for responding again. xlsfonts indeed causes a long printout of what seem to be font names. xset -q indeed shows the path, /usr/NX/share/fonts,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/home/bill/.fonts I don't see .xinitrc. But, I don't know what to do with all this. Where to go next, so to speak. Thanks. Sorry for being a unix dummy. Jim