From: Rainer Trusch <rainer.trusch@students.uni-mainz.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font problem with xft (solved)
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:24:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hru9myv.fsf@rivendell.grasswurzel.nett> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bph69pv7.fsf@rivendell.grasswurzel.nett
On 7 Jan 2010, Rainer Trusch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A while ago I setup Emacs on my PC for ttf fonts and it works
> fine. Yesterday I did the same with my notebook. If I start it with
>
> emacsclient -c -a ""
>
> the startup breaks with this message:
>
> *ERROR*: Font `-adobe-Helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15' is
> not defined
>
> No client shows up. If I start emacs the ordinary way, it starts but I
> get the error message in the mini buffer and no ttf fonts.
>
> The strange thing is both systems have the same setup. It is a current
> version of Debian/sid and the emacs configuration is syncronized via
> unison. The xft config is in my .Xdefaults and looks this way:
>
> Emacs.FontBackend: xft
> Emacs.font: DejaVu Sans Mono-11
> Emacs.geometry:120x38
>
> The fonts are definatly installed and I don't have any font setting in
> my emacs config. I found older bug reports with a similar problem, but
> it seemed to be fixed. It's also strange that it complains about a non
> ttf font. Has anybody a clue what to do?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Rainer
I just found the problem. I installed on my laptop selectable-font.el
long time ago and kept the startup in a seperat file which isn't
syncronized with my PC. I oversaw it completely since I never really
used it. Removing it does the trick.
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