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#57962
29.0.50; Odd font choices
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Message #35 received at 57962 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
> Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> What happens if you try setting it to each of the following in order?
>> (The list below was taken straight from xfns.c.)
>>
>> #if defined USE_CAIRO || defined HAVE_XFT
>> /* This will find the normal Xft font. */
>> "monospace-10",
>> #endif
>> "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1",
>> "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1",
>> "-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1",
>> /* This was formerly the first thing tried, but it finds
>> too many fonts and takes too long. */
>> "-*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1",
>> /* If those didn't work, look for something which will
>> at least work. */
>> "-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1",
>> "fixed",
>>
>> It's a long shot, but if it still doesn't work then I'm really out of
>> ideas.
>
> Well, the font Emacs has chosen for `default' is "-DAMA-Ubuntu
> Mono-regular-normal-normal-*-45-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1", so if I say
>
> (defface fixed-pitch
> '((t :font "-DAMA-Ubuntu Mono-regular-normal-normal-*-45-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1"))
> "The basic fixed-pitch face."
> :group 'basic-faces)
>
> then things look fine, of course. But we want that to happen
> automatically (if `default' is using a fixed pitch font).
Yes, of course. I have no idea how the default font is looked up, but
the list I sent is the list of defaults xfns.c tries if xsettings aren't
on (I thought font-use-system-font was on by default, but I was mistaken
there.)
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