From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: How to use xft fonts with Lucid linked Emacs
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 09:31:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110708093140.3afe743c@foolinux.dyndns.org> (raw)
Hi everyone, it has been a long time.
I use Debian 23.3 packages, and I want to switch to the Lucid flavor because the gtk flavor pulls in my nemesis gconf. It works, but I seem to be unable to use xft fonts. After reading the manpage and info manual, I put this in my .Xresources:
Emacs.pane.menubar*.font: Sans-12
But instead Emacs renders the menu with the "fixed" bitmap font, and I get this in my .xsession-errors:
Warning: Cannot convert string "Sans-12" to type FontStruct
I also tried adding this to .Xresources:
Emacs.FontBackend: xft,x
but that didn't change anything.
I am pretty sure Xft support is compiled in this version, at least the binary is linked with the xft and freetype libraries. (How do I check that Xft support is present from within Emacs, by the way?)
Many thanks for any insights.
Ian.
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2011-07-08 16:31 Ian Zimmerman [this message]
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2011-07-11 2:05 ` How to use xft fonts with Lucid linked Emacs Jason Rumney
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