Subject: Re: 23.0.90; emacs-snapshot has ugly fonts when using set-default-font elisp function

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:22:54 -0500

Theodore Tso <[email-masked]> writes:

> Stupid question --- is there a way to force the right thing to happen
> from emacs-lisp?  My biggest gripe is that I couldn't figure out a way
> to make the right thing happem from my .emacs.el file

Something like this will do the trick:

  (set-frame-parameter nil 'font-backend '(xft x))