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From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org Development" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs fullscreen and sizes in frame parameters
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:42:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gi3ruqk.fsf@engster.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2B4B8654-6ED8-4A9A-90B3-49E8A683C39A@mit.edu> (chad's message of "Sun, 9 Jun 2013 05:47:26 -0700")

chad writes:
> On 09 Jun 2013, at 02:40, David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote:
>
>> And yes, I'm working on X11. So I'm now back at how to choose the right
>> font for a real fullscreen frame. I guess "5x8" should be OK for almost
>> all common resolutions, but I can't be sure. So the question remains if
>> I can somehow fake this... The optimum would be a fake font with 1 pixel
>> height. :-)
>
> You might see if modern X11 systems still recognize the font `nil2'.

Actually yes, nil2 is still there, but I cannot use it in Emacs for some
reason. 'xterm -fn nil2' works, and I see that nil2 is an alias for

-misc-nil-medium-r-normal--2-20-75-75-c-10-misc-fontspecific

but Emacs tells me

  'Font `nil2' is not defined'.

-David



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-09 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-08 22:04 Emacs fullscreen and sizes in frame parameters David Engster
2013-06-09  2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-09  6:47   ` David Engster
2013-06-09  7:24     ` David Engster
2013-06-09  9:12       ` David Engster
2013-06-09  9:14       ` Jan Djärv
2013-06-09  9:40         ` David Engster
2013-06-09 12:47           ` chad
2013-06-09 15:52             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-06-09 18:42             ` David Engster [this message]
2013-06-10 16:10               ` David Engster
2013-06-09  6:55 ` Jan Djärv
2013-06-09 15:54   ` Eli Zaretskii

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