Re: set font problem

[jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)]

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> writes:

> On Monday 17 March 2008 your cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote:
>> He means that after you edit .Xdefaults, you use the command
>>
>> $ xrdb .Xdefaults
>>
>> to update the databse of X variables.
>
> Done, but now emacs refuses to start saying:
> No fonts match `-xos4-terminus-medium-*-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1'
> and I've tried also with Courier fonts.

Do you have the font?  If you want terminus, you have to get it from
http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/jimmy-en.html --- I really like it ;)

Use xfontsel: pick a family that you like, then hit the "select" button,
and then middle-click into the frame where you're editing .Xdefaults.
Then do 'xrdb .Xdefaults' and then restart Emacs.

I have never had a problem putting in as many asterisks as there were in
xfontsel, although it's a good idea to narrow it down to a spacing
(spc), registry (rgistry) and encoding (encding).

Joel

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