GNU bug report logs - #57372
no-toolkit menu popups do not respect emacs font configuration

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Message #104 received at 57372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Tomas Hlavaty <tom <at> logand.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 57372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57372: no-toolkit menu popups do not respect emacs font
 configuration
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:26:42 +0800

Tomas Hlavaty <tom <at> logand.com> writes:

> I suppose it is possible, but complex and inconvenient.
> Why do I need to do that in the first place?

Because that is how the old XMenu library, and most other X programs,
work.

> In my example, I had a function like this:
>
> (defun set-text-height (new-height)
>   (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height new-height))
>
> How could I achieve what you suggest so that setting the font height
> would also apply to menu item X resource font?

X core fonts are not scalable, so they do not support having their
height set.

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