GNU bug report logs - #3228
23.0.93; GTK font selection: asked for Courier, got Nimbus

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>

Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 08:25:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>
Cc: svenjoac <at> gmx.de, 3228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3228: 23.0.93; GTK font selection: asked for Courier, got Nimbus
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:10:06 +0800

Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> > But, x-select-font is called from mouse-appearance-menu (in
>> > mouse.el) too, and it does something like this:
>  
>> > (buffer-face-mode-invoke (font-face-attributes (x-select-font)) ...)
>
>> > and thus the :type information is lost by
>> > font-face-attributes.  I don't know why we need
>> > font-face-attributes here.
>
> How did you solve it?  Or, is it not a problem?

Sorry, I missed that.  I just committed a fix.  If x-select-font returns
a font spec, mouse-appearance-menu now calls

   (buffer-face-mode-invoke (list :font font) ...)

This required fixing xfaces.c to allow face-remapping using :font, which
was previously broken.
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