Font woes on OS X

Font woes on OS X

[Michael Hudson]

If I use customize-face to set the default face to

-apple-vt100-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-m-0-mac-roman

everything looks nice.  Unfortunately, when I restart emacs something
comes along *after* my .emacs is processed and changes the font-height
to 135, which looks atrocious.

Help?  I mean, I don't restart Emacs all that often, but...

This is on Mac OS X, built from CVS yesterday with Carbon support.

Cheers,
M.

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Re: Font woes on OS X

[Michael Hudson]

Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> writes:

> If I use customize-face to set the default face to
> 
> -apple-vt100-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-m-0-mac-roman
> 
> everything looks nice.  Unfortunately, when I restart emacs something
> comes along *after* my .emacs is processed and changes the font-height
> to 135, which looks atrocious.

This has gone away following a reboot.  Wierd.  I thought I'd gotten
away from the reboot being the cure for all ills...

Cheers,
M.

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Re: Font woes on OS X

[Rodney Sparapani]

M:

Actually, most things in OS X can be fixed by logging off and logging 
back on.  It's a pain, but much quicker than rebooting.  I have to do 
the same thing on Solaris when I make changes to CDE (you can use xrdb, 
but unless you have the commands memorized, logging is quicker).

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Re: Font woes on OS X

[ken]

Isn't it possible just to reload the font server?  I.e., 

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart

???
ken

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Spake Rodney Sparapani at 09:43 (UTC-0500) on Tue, 22 Oct 2002:

= M:
= 
= Actually, most things in OS X can be fixed by logging off and logging 
= back on.  It's a pain, but much quicker than rebooting.  I have to do 
= the same thing on Solaris when I make changes to CDE (you can use xrdb, 
= but unless you have the commands memorized, logging is quicker).
= 
= 

Re: Font woes on OS X

[Michael Hudson]

Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa@mcw.edu> writes:

> Actually, most things in OS X can be fixed by logging off and logging
> back on.

I guessed that would be the case, but I needed to reboot anyway after
an upgrade.  I don't log out very much more often than I reboot...

Cheers,
M.

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