From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days? Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:00:11 +0900 Message-ID: <87ab4k3g04.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <7b501d5c0906060758n3113b6cdr37a5635b389428b8@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244343643 15124 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2009 03:00:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 03:00:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 07 05:00:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MD8ch-0000Ql-Lr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:00:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MD8cg-0001dm-QG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:00:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MD8cc-0001dh-VU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:00:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MD8cX-0001dV-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33201 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MD8cX-0001dS-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:00:29 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34768 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MD8cW-0006yJ-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:00:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MD8cQ-00033i-EF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:00:22 +0000 Original-Received: from 218.231.177.55.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.177.55]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:00:22 +0000 Original-Received: from miles by 218.231.177.55.eo.eaccess.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:00:22 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.231.177.55.eo.eaccess.ne.jp System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:GMzHjlVMZYezef9HTptaCCwVjb4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111362 Archived-At: Deniz Dogan writes: > In earlier versions of Emacs 23, I managed to solve the problem by > setting the font in .Xdefaults, but now not even that works. I am not > sure which revision this was "broken" in and to be honest, I just want > to know how I can work around it. One thing which annoys me is that Emacs seems to ignore .Xdefaults if there's anything in the server's xrdb database -- and recent versions of gnome, put crap in the xrdb database without being asked to. So to properly start emacs, I first need to do "xrdb -remove" in a shell. -miles -- Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.