From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing Emacs font Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:11:22 +0800 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395760768 5043 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2014 15:19:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:19:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 16:19:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WST8W-0002W8-Do for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:19:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42338 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WST8V-0000AZ-LQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:19:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WST8E-0000AE-85 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WST88-0000Am-Ge for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35517) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WST88-0000Ai-9l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:19:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WST83-00020x-UD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:19:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 182.48.101.22 ([182.48.101.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:19:03 +0100 Original-Received: from william.xwl by 182.48.101.22 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:19:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 182.48.101.22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+0yNM6iftEEBJ/y9vbgYDe94Zck= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96748 Archived-At: Jai Dayal 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. -- William http://xwl.appspot.com