* Re: How to use xft fonts with Lucid linked Emacs
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@ 2011-07-11 2:05 ` Jason Rumney
2011-07-11 16:25 ` Ian Zimmerman
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From: Jason Rumney @ 2011-07-11 2:05 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Saturday, July 9, 2011 12:31:40 AM UTC+8, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 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
The Lucid menubar probably cannot use xft fonts. This is not the same as what your subject says.
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* Re: How to use xft fonts with Lucid linked Emacs
2011-07-11 2:05 ` How to use xft fonts with Lucid linked Emacs Jason Rumney
@ 2011-07-11 16:25 ` Ian Zimmerman
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From: Ian Zimmerman @ 2011-07-11 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:05:13 -0700 (PDT)
Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com> 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.
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* How to use xft fonts with Lucid linked Emacs
@ 2011-07-08 16:31 Ian Zimmerman
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From: Ian Zimmerman @ 2011-07-08 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
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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