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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4oulf9up.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zlcd1iia.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (James Cloos's message of "Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:14:29 -0400")

> Reading ~/.Xdefaults is a backup measure for the cases where the user
> does not have a $HOME on the server.

Originally it was simply for settings which are specific to the client
rather than to the server (e.g. ~/.Xdefaults could contain filenames,
whereas having them in the xrdb database wouldn't make much sense).
Nowadays this would also make a lot of sense for font names since
fontconfig and friends handle fonts on the client side, so the server
can't know which fonts are avail to which clients.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-12 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-06 14:58 What is the proper way to set the default font these days? Deniz Dogan
2009-06-06 19:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-07  0:25   ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-07  3:00 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-07 12:44   ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-06-08  5:22     ` Miles Bader
2009-06-08 14:21       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-08 14:59         ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-08 15:50           ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-08 16:17             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-08 16:19               ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-08 16:28                 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-08 16:50                   ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-10  9:17                   ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-10 13:37                     ` Miles Bader
2009-06-10 14:08                       ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-10 15:52                     ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-10 15:59                       ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-29 11:44                       ` gtk toolbar bug (was Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?) Bruce Stephens
2009-06-29 17:49                         ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-29 19:30                           ` gtk toolbar bug Bruce Stephens
2009-06-29 21:37                             ` Bruce Stephens
2009-06-30 14:42                               ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-01 14:10                                 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-01 15:25                                   ` Bruce Stephens
2009-06-08 22:15             ` What is the proper way to set the default font these days? Chad Brown
2009-06-08 22:40               ` David Reitter
2009-06-09  0:42                 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-10 22:07                   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-11  0:25                     ` Miles Bader
2009-06-09  3:04               ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-08 22:03       ` Johan Bockgård
2009-06-12 17:14       ` James Cloos
2009-06-12 21:00         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-06-15  3:29         ` Miles Bader
2009-07-01 22:35           ` Deniz Dogan
2009-07-02  6:44             ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-02  7:45               ` Deniz Dogan
2009-07-02  8:23                 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-02  9:19                   ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-02 10:59                     ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-02 12:31                       ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-02  7:54               ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-02  8:02                 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-07-02 10:38                   ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-02 11:58                     ` Deniz Dogan
2009-07-21 15:14                 ` Bruce Stephens
2009-07-21 18:48                   ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-21 19:10                     ` Bruce Stephens

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