Re: Changing Emacs font

[William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>]

Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>  I want to change the default font to be Monospace of size 12.
>
> When I open emacs -nw in a terminal, the terminal's profile preferences are
> set to Monospace 12, however, when I open up emacs without a terminal, I
> get a completely different set of fonts, and frankly, they're hard on my
> eyes.
>
> How can I change the emacs settings so that the font displayed is Monspace
> size 12? I tried all solutions under "Globally Change the Default Font"
> found here:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts#toc2
>
> But I've had no luck.. the font is still the same original one.

If font is not changed, you shall get some error? 

> What am I missing?

You may try `M-x set-frame-font' to see if emacs knows that monospace
font at first.

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William

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