From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Doctor Who" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Getting emacs23 to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8 font Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:58:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4b75340e0807200558h7b495e97tfa2533765149a41a@mail.gmail.com> References: <87fxq5d8gg.fsf@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216558713 9236 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2008 12:58:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:58:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 20 14:59:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KKYVV-0006go-Aw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:59:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41730 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKYUc-0002zI-9V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:58:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKYUH-0002xS-DD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKYUG-0002we-GD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48875 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKYUG-0002wS-0L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.233]:52503) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKYUF-0001D8-L1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h28so411849wxd.24 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:58:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=GN3Ysysdcb0RK1IxMSPYZbfV3eMwVMa/S5eRKkozyTA=; b=u1JnkUiKWSCPYmbsClLu7jfdpLu09lLSmTUhBY1HGOdqljgjER2AiZTRjfyg6Tztam B8pl/MtH7Jp6dk3V8dt8tTKR6SIRg2+Xn+4WQYz0PNwiW+7ifYuFi9pmw3UkxPulFzHe dL+zqtdWSGRcII5/Yo9e/Bc8lpJzjEDfyiT8A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=G0KZoc4OiIXYsLwBw+b4b+pG19+VbpiNBajbUoPguAKtq5NUw6uNJt1MwRr+2O8OkA upAVvIPCgjkthgxuY12weUqW5UerLifBVo8OCF9cmmLXSUSGQoqIdvmdsqFzXQWXi9Zu P6Qa5+a+uBHCwoX/ema/d+1L/ERhBh5ebxt/U= Original-Received: by 10.70.31.4 with SMTP id e4mr2198832wxe.12.1216558682190; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.70.61.4 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:58:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87fxq5d8gg.fsf@gmx.at> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:55747 Archived-At: On 7/19/08, Wolfgang Zweimueller wrote: > "Doctor Who" writes: > >> I'm trying to get emacs23 to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8 as the >> font. When I try to invoke emacs like this: >> >> emacs --font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8" >> >> I get the error: >> >> Font `Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8' is not defined > > I had the same problem (with another font). My solution was to put > this line into ~/.Xresources: > > Emacs.font: dejavu sans mono > > Then do a "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources" or restart your X11. Now Emacs > should start with that font. > > hth, > Wolfgang > Thanks for the reply...unfortunately that did not work for me. Not sure if the problem is specific to my OS (openSUSE 11.0 in this case) as to where it is looking for those settings. The font in the menu bar looks great, but the font in the editor screen does not respect what is put in ~/.Xresources.