From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to use xft fonts with Lucid linked Emacs Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:25:41 -0700 Organization: Foolinux Message-ID: <20110711092541.4b25afe6@foolinux.dyndns.org> References: <2037a462-976e-4e0e-bfb8-f683c72a69a7@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310404576 24036 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2011 17:16:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:16:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 11 19:16:12 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgK5b-0002XC-Pn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:16:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgK5Z-0002u4-Ir for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54039) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgJIz-0007Ty-Po for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:25:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgJIy-0005lO-BB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:25:57 -0400 Original-Received: from li225-69.members.linode.com ([173.255.215.69]:39715 helo=ahiker.homeip.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgJIx-0005kX-Tm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:25:56 -0400 Original-Received: from 75-30-114-232.lightspeed.arlhil.sbcglobal.net ([75.30.114.232] helo=foolinux.dyndns.org) by ahiker.homeip.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QgJIq-0002fE-GN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:25:48 -0700 In-Reply-To: <2037a462-976e-4e0e-bfb8-f683c72a69a7@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.4; i486-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 173.255.215.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81544 Archived-At: On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:05:13 -0700 (PDT) Jason Rumney wrote: Ian> I use Debian 23.3 packages, and I want to switch to the Lucid Ian> flavor because the gtk flavor pulls in my nemesis gconf. It works, Ian> but I seem to be unable to use xft fonts. After reading the Ian> manpage and info manual, I put this in my .Xresources: Ian> Emacs.pane.menubar*.font: Sans-12 Jason> The Lucid menubar probably cannot use xft fonts. This is not the Jason> same as what your subject says. You are right; setting one of the buffer contents faces to Sans-12 works as expected. Now, why? The error message looks like something determined solely by the font name and not the context where it is to be used. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.