* Changing menubar fonts, GNU Emacs 24.3.1?
@ 2014-06-08 14:07 amca01
2014-06-08 17:25 ` Yuri Khan
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From: amca01 @ 2014-06-08 14:07 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
I've been totally unsuccessful with this: I want to change my Emacs menubar fonts so that they look like menus in other applications. I'm using kubuntu 14.04 64-bit, and the emacs version I'm using is:
GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
of 2014-03-08 on lamiak, modified by Debian
I've tried customizing faces, I've tried fiddling with X resources, but so far nothing I've done has had any affect on the menu font, which is a spindly monospaced font. The font used for menus in other applications seems to be "Ubuntu 9", whatever that is.
I would have thought this would be almost trivial, but so far it seems not to be...
Any suggestions, advice, or help would be gratefully received!
Thanks,
-A.
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* Re: Changing menubar fonts, GNU Emacs 24.3.1?
2014-06-08 14:07 Changing menubar fonts, GNU Emacs 24.3.1? amca01
@ 2014-06-08 17:25 ` Yuri Khan
2014-06-09 0:14 ` Javier
2014-06-09 0:55 ` amca01
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Yuri Khan @ 2014-06-08 17:25 UTC (permalink / raw
To: amca01@gmail.com; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, amca01@gmail.com <amca01@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been totally unsuccessful with this: I want to change my Emacs menubar fonts so that they look like menus in other applications. I'm using kubuntu 14.04 64-bit, and the emacs version I'm using is:
>
> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
> of 2014-03-08 on lamiak, modified by Debian
>
> I've tried customizing faces, I've tried fiddling with X resources, but so far nothing I've done has had any affect on the menu font, which is a spindly monospaced font. The font used for menus in other applications seems to be "Ubuntu 9", whatever that is.
You are using a GTK+3 application (Emacs) in a KDE environment. It is
likely that your theme supports Qt but not GTK+3.
Do you also suffer from the same problem when using other GTK+3
applications (e.g. synaptic or gucharmap)? If so, find a theme that
supports both Qt and GTK+3, or find a GTK+3 theme that most resembles
your chosen Qt theme.
Nothing that you do in Emacs (apart from editing GTK+3 configuration
files) will affect the appearance of menus, since they are drawn by
the toolkit, not Emacs.
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* Re: Changing menubar fonts, GNU Emacs 24.3.1?
2014-06-08 14:07 Changing menubar fonts, GNU Emacs 24.3.1? amca01
2014-06-08 17:25 ` Yuri Khan
@ 2014-06-09 0:14 ` Javier
2014-06-09 0:55 ` amca01
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Javier @ 2014-06-09 0:14 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
Check if in your distribution you have a package named emacs-lucid, it
is emacs compiled with a different x-toolkit. The font font of the
menus is more 'qt'-like, not gtk.
If you dont have the package or want to tweak more yourself you can
try to compile emacs yourself and change the --with-x-toolkit option.
--with-x-toolkit=lucid
I don't know if there is a way to fine tune the menubar font.
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* Re: Changing menubar fonts, GNU Emacs 24.3.1?
2014-06-08 14:07 Changing menubar fonts, GNU Emacs 24.3.1? amca01
2014-06-08 17:25 ` Yuri Khan
2014-06-09 0:14 ` Javier
@ 2014-06-09 0:55 ` amca01
2014-06-09 1:52 ` Javier
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: amca01 @ 2014-06-09 0:55 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
Thanks for that. I've been fiddling around with gtk settings: in themes, in the system-settings tool, but so far nothing has made any difference to the emacs menu fonts.
I have just install emacs24-lucid, and the menu fonts are indeed different - but this time big and bulky, instead of small and spindly. However! this new emacs does play nicely with the editres protocol, and so I may be able to change the menu fonts now by editing my .Xresources file.
Thanks again, and I'll keep you posted.
-A.
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* Re: Changing menubar fonts, GNU Emacs 24.3.1?
2014-06-09 0:55 ` amca01
@ 2014-06-09 1:52 ` Javier
2014-06-09 3:53 ` amca01
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From: Javier @ 2014-06-09 1:52 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
You can test the xresources directly in the command line:
emacs -xrm 'Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier'
emacs -xrm 'Emacs.pane.menubar.font: 10x20'
This works in my emacs-lucid.
In any case, I think that your system has some missing fonts that were
not installed. I use emacs-lucid myself and the default menubar font
is very small sized. You can always see the default font with 'emacs
-Q'. It disables all configs and xresources.
amca01@gmail.com <amca01@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for that. I've been fiddling around with gtk settings: in
> themes, in the system-settings tool, but so far nothing has made any
> difference to the emacs menu fonts.
>
> I have just install emacs24-lucid, and the menu fonts are indeed
> different - but this time big and bulky, instead of small and
> spindly. However! this new emacs does play nicely with the editres
> protocol, and so I may be able to change the menu fonts now by
> editing my .Xresources file.
>
> Thanks again, and I'll keep you posted.
>
> -A.
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* Re: Changing menubar fonts, GNU Emacs 24.3.1?
2014-06-09 1:52 ` Javier
@ 2014-06-09 3:53 ` amca01
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From: amca01 @ 2014-06-09 3:53 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
Many thanks. I installed emacs-lucid, and set
emacs24.pane.menubar.Font: Sans Serif:style=Normal:size=8
in my .Xresources file. This sets the menubar font to the same as used in my Qt applications.
And thanks for pointing out the xrm switch!
-A.
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