From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jorgen Grahn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs 23, Debian and the "fixed" font Date: 24 Feb 2011 20:57:44 GMT Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298609354 26686 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2011 04:49:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:49:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 25 05:49:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pspbo-0003l1-GM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:49:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43037 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pspbg-0003HT-AF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:48:44 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Mb7kAdHgX2ihiGRMfPdc/A8FOQ47pwXlCpmBhTEVjgBt1nASM4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5mTR7u/MWXdxjHc+aEqNJnrUfyU= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185291 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:47:50 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79461 Archived-At: I've started upgrading my Linux machines from Debian 5.0 (which includes emacs 21.3) to 6.0 (which includes emacs 23). I haven't upgraded my main desktop machine yet. When I tried emacs on one of the upgraded machines, I noted that my .emacs broke on the line (set-default-font "fixed") and I also couldn't get to it using M-x set-default-font. I suspect this is because Debian's emacs 23 is built with the Qt toolkit rather than the good old Athena widgets. - Is there a way to get to the "fixed" font in some other way, perhaps under a different name? I find it's the most readable fixed-width font for programming etc; it has always been the font I've used in Emacs and in terminals. - If not, can I rebuild emacs with Athena widgets instead of Qt? I.e. is it optional during build? If both are 'no', I'll build myself an emacs 21.3 instead. I'm very happy with that version. BR, Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn O o .