From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why can't emacs recognize X fonts? Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 22:53:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87aaqq1kyz.fsf@rimspace.net> <424C6A04-3435-487C-9985-CAE28C3079E8@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278622442 7202 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2010 20:54:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 20:54:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Allan Gottlieb Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 08 22:53:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWy6Z-0003gE-84 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:53:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60447 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWy6Y-0000g1-Uq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:53:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60893 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWy6D-0000fm-5U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWy6C-0003Y7-1K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:53:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:55229) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWy6B-0003Xu-Rn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:53:36 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp04.web.de ( [172.20.0.225]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CD8D16B04728; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 22:53:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [91.35.236.155] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp04.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #4) id 1OWy69-0006ZS-00; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:53:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/NH3+BAy97zXDsiliwb8qywngBgJlMg2bAsfpI 0BUmMwwZ28enE7G2hLwcrQ4QxsD5Qv0DEamX7+h0+7bFBZFpga KaGWPC7mK+wlUz/Zmh6Q== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74142 Archived-At: Am 08.07.2010 um 22:15 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > FontPath set to: I don't where, from which programme, this statement comes from, you =20 can determine the font path the X server uses by running xset q Besides this a user side font management exists: libfontconfig. =20 Commands like fc-list, fc-cache, or fc-match are related to this and =20 files like fonts.conf. The X resource (Emacs.)FontBackend, which can =20 have the values xft, ftx, or x, I think, sets the order by which GNU =20 Emacs will check if the fonts system supplies the specified font. The =20= font backends used can depend on the libraries found on the system. -- Greetings Pete The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they =20 start selling vacuum cleaners. =96 Ernest Jan Plugge