GNU bug report logs - #30793
25.3; menubar font broken with fontconfig-2.13.0 (with Lucid toolkit)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:54:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 25.3

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105415

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 30793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30793: 25.3; menubar font broken with fontconfig-2.13.0 (with Lucid toolkit)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:55:19 +0200

> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:53:01 +0100
> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
> 
> I have the following lines in my ~/.Xresources:
> 
>    Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Droid Sans-10:bold
>    Emacs.pane.menubar.background: maroon
>    Emacs.pane.menubar.foreground: ivory
> 
> So I would expect the menubar font to be bold (which worked as
> expected with fontconfig-2.12.6).
> 
> However, with fontconfig-2.13.0, the font appears in medium weight.
> Other attributes, like the typeface itself or the size seem to work
> correctly.

Isn't this entirely between X and fontconfig?  I mean, what's Emacs's
part in this?

Was this reported to the fontconfig developers?

Thanks.
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