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: 28 Oct 2006 11:11:50 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1162059110.456641.280210@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <1161483959.649357.321060@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1161568106.026124.25630@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <1161764097.465879.311440@h48g2000cwc.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 1162060857 16532 80.91.229.2 (28 Oct 2006 18:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:40:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 28 20:40:56 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 1Gdt6h-0007ir-Lr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:40:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gdt6h-0001Fq-7N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.19.24.66 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1162059115 9605 127.0.0.1 (28 Oct 2006 18:11:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:11:55 +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:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.19.24.66; posting-account=h70zOA0AAAAIRGQeOq5XqVEccwqTtd3c Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142746 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:38365 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 25.10.2006 um 10:14 schrieb BillJosephson: > > > I don't see .xinitrc. But, I don't know what to do with all this. > > Where > > to go next, so to speak. > > You have somewhere a template for ~/.xinitrc on your system, maybe > in /etc/X11/xinit ... > > When the X server is launched it looks for ~/.xinitrc. If the file > exists it executes it. By this means you can correct and extend the > font path, set other time constants or repeat rates or acceleration > for keyboard or mouse, launch useful X clients and particularly > choose a Window Manager. > > The UNIX help system, i.e. the man and apropos (or man -k) commands, > can explain more. More resources can be found on the Internet. > > If you don't want to learn so much, you can check the look of a font > in X11 with xfd (or xfontsel) and then invoke GNU Emacs with 'emacs - > fn &'. Or you simply filter the output of > xlsfonts. This way you can find whether the fonts reported exist on > your system. If they don't, you can select another one to pass on the > command line. > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > "A mathematician is a machine that turns coffee into theorems." Thanks again Pete. I appreciate your help, and will try one more question. To summarize, I can control what fonts emacs wants to use, and I can check to see which fonts are on the system. By googling the terms you mention, I can learn more about how to do this. This is a great help, thanks very much. If I wish to take the approach of obtaining the fonts that emacs seems to want but can not find, where would I go for that? Again, I sure appreciate your help....