From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Cloos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Display Recangular blocks instead of fonts Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 09:24:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874ndpta6g.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369661367 4263 80.91.229.3 (27 May 2013 13:29:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 13:29:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , "Kumar, Amit" To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 27 15:29:27 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1UgxUN-0002tO-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 15:29:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44477 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgxUM-0000Ka-IR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 09:29:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgxUC-0000K4-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 09:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgxUA-00088u-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 09:29:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ore.jhcloos.com ([198.147.23.85]:42466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgxUA-00088B-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 09:29:14 -0400 Original-Received: by ore.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id E67F0204D6; Mon, 27 May 2013 09:29:10 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=ore13; t=1369661350; bh=twyptZ7eygI7r0wse9RETffqPM4jS9WqkSsYvKyXW40=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=l0EviaPH47sRANBwL6/sXwlzzkrx8XYdmEaegsnuQavYciwZ9bxZeyqe9eFHeBtWk 2omsJIlJQ1s2jO+J0suEbQVJoFmzRpMfUOJ9rX6Ynyns6R9mC24SPnUfKCChjPRzaO HRWmNL/ygk9g2CzwawkBqllPWQluIE46PCrdG+Bal3g== Original-Received: by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1054E7342E; Mon, 27 May 2013 13:24:12 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <874ndpta6g.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Mon, 27 May 2013 11:43:03 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAgMAAABinRfyAAAACVBMVEX///8ZGXBQKKnCrDQ3 AAAAJElEQVQImWNgQAAXzwQg4SKASgAlXIEEiwsSIYBEcLaAtMEAADJnB+kKcKioAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Copyright: Copyright 2013 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Original-Lines: 23 X-Hashcash: 1:28:130527:emacs-devel@gnu.org::3w9Gj6TZmiM1RMA5:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000Mesx5 X-Hashcash: 1:28:130527:stephen@xemacs.org::eMDJLXM2LX9RBl5A:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000005Bal1 X-Hashcash: 1:28:130527:ahkumar@mail.smu.edu::Kiz/wXrR0CcsA4bk:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000VQWoQ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 198.147.23.85 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159831 Archived-At: >>>>> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull writes: SJT> I don't recall exactly how modern X servers handle server-side fonts. The majority of the current distributions default to installing the X server with built-in support for the misc-fixed and cursor fonts and with the font-path set to "built-ins" (to find those two). They expect everything to use client-side fonts. But I believe they still have the font loader for bdf and pcf files, so it should be possible to install the bitmap font packages and add the necessary directories to the font-path. As one example, on debian sid, :; apt-cache search xfonts|grep ^xfonts lists 77 packages, (75 font packages, plus encodings and utils). -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6