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#57372
no-toolkit menu popups do not respect emacs font configuration
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Message #80 received at 57372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Tomas Hlavaty <tom <at> logand.com>
> Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 57372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 21:01:20 +0200
>
> On Wed 24 Aug 2022 at 20:59, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> >> I find the alien X resource fonts the ugliest, unreadable and very
> >> inconvenient because the font size is completely wrong and inconvenient
> >> to control.
> >
> > But you can customize that via the X resources, can't you? Just tell
> > the menus to use the same font Emacs uses for its default face.
>
> I suppose it is possible, but complex and inconvenient.
> Why do I need to do that in the first place?
>
> 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?
Make the function write to the ~/.Xresources file?
Of course, X doesn't necessarily understand the Emacs units of
measuring fonts, for example the relative units. So eventually you'll
need separate customizations. However, I don't expect you to have to
change these customizations too frequently.
More generally, I don't see a way around the fact that different parts
of the system need to be customized differently. Many programs have
their own init files, and some even have more than one: for example,
Bash, GDB, and any other program that uses Readline will typically
have customizations in ~/.inputrc, in addition to the program-specific
init file, such as ~/.gdbinit for GDB.
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