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From: David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-default-font
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:39:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SN6PR01MB4493FCA34424284F9F93195B9B520@SN6PR01MB4493.prod.exchangelabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SN6PR01MB44930CAF3DFFB9ED844930C69B520@SN6PR01MB4493.prod.exchangelabs.com> (David Masterson's message of "Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:07:32 -0700")

David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Maybe the original build was with GTK, and this one, with Lucid,
>> doesn't have the nice font selection dialog?  What you describe is the
>> Emacs's internal fallback which shows fonts known in advance to exist,
>> with no relation to the font back-end in use.  This "not nice" menu is
>> shown if x-select-font function is not available.
>
> Ah, I'll investigate that.  Sounds like I need to install another
> library.  Thanks.

Followup: from the code in xfns.c, it appears that x-select-font is only
defined if you are using GTK and FreeType. With Lucid, you get the
internal fallback.

Maybe I'll try rebuilding with GTK.
--
David Masterson



  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-28  2:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-25 16:54 set-default-font ken
2020-08-25 17:13 ` set-default-font Stefan Kangas
2020-08-25 18:27 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-25 18:32   ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-25 20:38     ` set-default-font ken
2020-08-25 20:49       ` set-default-font 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2020-08-25 22:15         ` set-default-font ken
2020-08-26  5:44           ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27  1:59             ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-27  4:03               ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27  4:47                 ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-27  8:24                   ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28  2:07                     ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-28  2:39                       ` David Masterson [this message]
2020-08-28  6:43                         ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 10:52                         ` set-default-font Robert Pluim
2020-08-28 23:38                           ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-29  8:37                             ` set-default-font Robert Pluim
2020-08-26  5:42         ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-26  5:40       ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-02 18:13 bug#1066: 23.0.60; (tool-bar-mode -1) in ~/.emacs has no effect with --daemon Romain Francoise
2008-10-02 19:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-02 20:07   ` Romain Francoise
2008-10-02 21:14     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-03  1:04       ` set-default-font (was: bug#1066: 23.0.60; (tool-bar-mode -1) in ~/.emacs has no effect with --daemon) Stefan Monnier
2008-10-03  7:22         ` set-default-font Glenn Morris

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