From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days? Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7b501d5c0906060758n3113b6cdr37a5635b389428b8@mail.gmail.com> <87ab4k3g04.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4A2BB621.201@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244840578 15832 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2009 21:02:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:02:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David De La Harpe Golden , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: James Cloos Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 12 23:02:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MFDtS-0007ql-Df for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:02:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37402 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFDtR-0002c3-SN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MFDrE-0000Xl-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MFDr9-0000Pm-8e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38604 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFDr8-0000PO-Tp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-01.vtx.ch ([212.147.0.84]:60944) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFDr6-0004YM-If; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor.home (dyn.83-228-142-003.dsl.vtx.ch [83.228.142.3]) by smtp-01.vtx.ch (VTX Services SA) with ESMTP id 9E8BA27FFB; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:00:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 716A96433E; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:06 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (James Cloos's message of "Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:14:29 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111457 Archived-At: > 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