From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bruce Park" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and X problem Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:31:26 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042475927 7375 80.91.224.249 (13 Jan 2003 16:38:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:38:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Y7bq-0001ul-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:38:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Y7bS-0007ql-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:38:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Y7Zj-000729-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:36:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Y7ZV-0006y9-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:36:21 -0500 Original-Received: from f17.law10.hotmail.com ([64.4.15.17] helo=hotmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Y7Yi-0006qn-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:35:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:31:26 -0800 Original-Received: from 24.90.55.23 by lw10fd.law10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:31:26 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.90.55.23] Original-To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jan 2003 16:31:26.0558 (UTC) FILETIME=[37E0A7E0:01C2BB21] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5440 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5440 >From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) >To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >Subject: Re: emacs and X problem >Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:26:06 +0100 > >Your hunch about fonts might be right. Depending on how you >specified the font for Emacs, changing the X font path might change >which font is found. > >How about using a fully-qualified-font-name-with-lotsa-dashes? Don't >use wildcards in it. >-- Well, Here's what my .Xresources and .Xdefautls look like: emacs*font: lucidasanstypewritet-12 /etc/X11/XFree86Config-4 (just the font paths) Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype" EndSection As you can see, I'm not using any wild cards. Curiously enough, does a font exist where it's double spaced like in the weird picture that I posted? bp >Ambibibentists unite! >_______________________________________________ >Help-gnu-emacs mailing list >Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus