Font problem with xft

Font problem with xft

[Rainer Trusch]

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

Re: Font problem with xft (solved)

[Rainer Trusch]

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.