Re: Help in querying xlsfonts for a particular font from elisp

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 25.08.2006 um 17:41 schrieb Andrew M. Scott:

> I really like the "vera sans mono" font, but it's only available on
> some of the platforms I use.

The fonts are free. You can easily install them everywhere. If you  
can't because of missing privileges, you could think of setting up a  
font server on your local machine (usually port 7100). This is just a  
piece of software and some configuration. Since the ssh tunnels are  
open to X11 protocol, your remote X clients could use the fonts from  
your font server. When it's running it does not consume much  
resources. The fonts are a few 10 kB, and your font server does not  
need to serve all X11 fonts, just a chosen few.

Instead of complicated Elisp code you could also set up ~/.Xdefaults  
files on your remote computers. Emacs*font and other font resources  
can also name a fontset (Emacs*fontSet, Emacs.Fontset-0), one of a  
few you have set up in the .emacs files.

When you know exactly what each machine offers, you could use Emacs  
invocations (from shell scripts for example) where either X resources  
or fonts or fontsets to use are specified.

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