From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why can't emacs recognize X fonts?
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:21:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu9bpah399a.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FB14A3F5-4542-457E-8247-A7B79A675718@Web.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:53:31 +0200")
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 08.07.2010 um 22:15 schrieb Allan Gottlieb:
>
>> FontPath set to:
>
> I don't where, from which programme, this statement comes from, you
> can determine the font path the X server uses by running
>
> xset q
>
> Besides this a user side font management exists:
> libfontconfig. Commands like fc-list, fc-cache, or fc-match are
> related to this and files like fonts.conf. The X resource
> (Emacs.)FontBackend, which can have the values xft, ftx, or x, I
> think, sets the order by which GNU Emacs will check if the fonts
> system supplies the specified font. The font backends used can depend
> on the libraries found on the system.
Thanks for this useful information. As I mentioned in another post my
error was simpler (emacs built w/o xft support).
I tried both "xset q" and fc-list. Both confirm the fonts.
thanks again,
allan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-08 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-18 4:26 Why can't emacs recognize X fonts? Qiang Guo
2010-06-20 2:44 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-06-20 8:46 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-06-21 21:38 ` Qiang Guo
2010-07-08 20:15 ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-07-08 20:53 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-07-08 22:21 ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.7.1278627686.10601.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-12 19:05 ` Giacomo Boffi
2010-07-08 21:03 ` Qiang Guo
2010-07-08 22:08 ` Allan Gottlieb
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1277002332.647.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-06-20 3:44 ` Juhapekka Tolvanen
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