From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Felix Geller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Font selection problems on Mac OS X Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:54:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247136883 28696 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2009 10:54:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:54:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 12:54:37 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 1MOrGu-0006GR-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:54:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56080 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOrGt-0000C1-TV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:54:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOrGl-00009v-QV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:54:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOrGh-00006b-Qt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:54:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36084 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOrGh-00005w-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:54:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:10624) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MOrGg-00040o-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:54:22 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MOrGg-0003ir-2Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:54:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MOrGa-0000VV-Gv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:54:16 +0000 Original-Received: from dslb-092-078-131-176.pools.arcor-ip.net ([92.78.131.176]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:54:16 +0000 Original-Received: from fgeller by dslb-092-078-131-176.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:54:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-092-078-131-176.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gPKjFnn2VMMm0ETBMKDEVn8zYTM= X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:112233 Archived-At: [08.07.2009 22:53] Felix Geller writes: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up Emacs on Mac OS X (10.5.7) and am having some > problems with the font setup: The fonts I installed manually > (e.g. DejaVu and Inconsolata) don't show up when I'm trying to set the > default font via `M-x set-default-font'. Also, the font selection dialog > doesn't include those fonts, even though I can select them for other > applications, e.g. the Terminal. I've tried the automated nightly build > from [1] as well as compiled a CVS version from today with the following > options: "--with-ns --with-x --prefix=/my/prefix". > > I'm new to Mac OS X, please let me know what I can do to figure out how > to set my preferred font. Thank you in advance! > > Please tell me if this isn't the correct group and excuse any > inconvenience my message caused. > > Cheers, > Felix Geller > > [1] http://atomized.org/wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/ I found the readson for why the fonts did not show up in the font selection dialog: I had to install the fonts system-wide, rather than solely for the current user. Is this the intended behavior? Cheers, Felix