GNU bug report logs - #201
Setting default face font on W32

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From: <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Setting default face font on W32
Date: 19 Oct 2003 18:20:26 -0400

Symptoms:

I'm discovering the wonders of Emacs under W32 and wanted
to change the default font from courier to something sansserif,
in this case lucida-console.
I haven't been able to get to work reliably yet.
Here is what I tried (the rest of the .emacs is empty):

- (custom-set-faces
   '(default ((t (:family "outline-lucida console")))))

  This seems not to have any effect on the initial frame which
  still uses courier.  When I do C-x 5 2, I do get the proper lucida
  font in the new frame, tho.

- (custom-set-faces
   '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "SystemWindow" :foreground "SystemWindowText" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 98 :width normal :family "outline-lucida console")))))

  This is the result of doing M-x customize-face RET default RET
  and changing nothing but the font family and then saving.

  This time the initial frame uses the proper lucida font.
  After C-x 5 2, the new frame also uses the proper lucida font,
  but after C-u C-x = in the second frame, the font of the frame
  reverts to courier (the original frame stays un-changed).
  If I do C-x 5 2 a second time (instead of C-u C-x = for example),
  the first and third frame use lucida but the second frame is
  changed to courier.

The W32 binary I use is downloaded from crasseux.com (this is
a friend's laptop on which there's no C compiler of any sort).

	Stefan

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2003-08-21 on MIDASPSE17
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.2)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: FRS
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> M-x r e p o r 
<tab> <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Loading mwheel...done
(C:\Documents and Settings\stefan\emacs\bin\emacs.exe)
Loading tool-bar...done
Loading image...done
Loading tooltip...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading font-lock...done
Loading emacsbug...done

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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: 201 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting default face font on W32
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:36:20 +0100

Long ago, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
> I haven't been able to get to work reliably yet.
> Here is what I tried (the rest of the .emacs is empty):
>
> - (custom-set-faces
>    '(default ((t (:family "outline-lucida console")))))
>
>   This seems not to have any effect on the initial frame which
>   still uses courier.  When I do C-x 5 2, I do get the proper lucida
>   font in the new frame, tho.
>   

The behaviour seems to be reversed in current trunk, but it seems to be 
the same on other platforms now, per the thread "Font settings ignored 
on new frames" in emacs-devel  on 3 June. So I think this can be 
considered fixed in 23.0.60, and if the new frames problem is considered 
a bug, then a new non w32 specific bug needs to be opened for it.

The bug described does still exist in 22.2 though.

GNU bug report logs - #201 Setting default face font on W32

GNU bug report logs - #201
Setting default face font on W32