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23.0.60; frame-notice-user-settings: Font is not defined

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; frame-notice-user-settings: Font is not defined
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:05:45 +0100

Let  ~/.emacs consist of this:

(setq default-frame-alist '((font-backend . "xft") (font . "Dejavu Sans Mono-10")))

Then when I invoke `emacs' it beeps and show this message:

frame-notice-user-settings: Font `-misc-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1' is not defined

Putting point on one of the characters in this message and typing `C-u
C-x =' shows this:

xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1

When I invoke Emacs like this:

$ emacs -Q -xrm 'Emacs.FontBackend: xft' -fn "Dejavu Sans Mono-10"

or like this:

$ emacs -Q --daemon --eval "(setq default-frame-alist '((font-backend . \"xft\") (font . \"Dejavu Sans Mono-10\")))"
$ emacsclient -c

then Emacs does not beep and there is no undefined font message. Typing
`C-u C-x =' shows the same as above.  (In the last Emacs invocation I
have to use --daemon and `emacsclient -c' because of bug #2021.)


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.31 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4)
 of 2009-01-31 on escher
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10502000
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: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Message #10 received at 2195 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 2195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; frame-notice-user-settings: Font is not defined
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:47:36 -0400

> Let  ~/.emacs consist of this:
>
> (setq default-frame-alist '((font-backend . "xft") (font . "Dejavu Sans
> Mono-10")))
>
> Then when I invoke `emacs' it beeps and show this message:
>
> frame-notice-user-settings: Font `-misc-dejavu sans
> mono-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1' is not defined

ISTR that I could reproduce this before, but not anymore with latest
CVS.  Maybe it's been fixed in the latest changes to font handling.  Do
you still see this problem occurring?

Message #15 received at 2195 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 2195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2195: 23.0.60; frame-notice-user-settings: Font is not defined
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:54:14 +0100

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:47:36 -0400 Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> wrote:

>> Let  ~/.emacs consist of this:
>>
>> (setq default-frame-alist '((font-backend . "xft") (font . "Dejavu Sans
>> Mono-10")))
>>
>> Then when I invoke `emacs' it beeps and show this message:
>>
>> frame-notice-user-settings: Font `-misc-dejavu sans
>> mono-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1' is not defined
>
> ISTR that I could reproduce this before, but not anymore with latest
> CVS.  Maybe it's been fixed in the latest changes to font handling.  Do
> you still see this problem occurring?

No; I cannot reproduce it with my latest build, GNU Emacs 23.0.91.4
(i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4) of 2009-03-15 on escher. 

Steve Berman

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