Subject: 23.0.60; ignored font statement in initial-frame-alist

From: Seb <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:05:49 -0500

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and the precise symptoms of the bug:

With the latest emacs-snapshot below, this customization (customize
interface extract):

 '(initial-frame-alist (quote ((top . 0) (left . 0) (width . 125) (height . 51) (tool-bar-lines . 1) (menu-bar-lines . 1) (scroll-bar-width . 15) (font . "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-15"))))

no longer works (used to since Xft introduction); the 'font' statement
is now ignored, and the initial-frame starts with whatever is in
default-frame-alist.

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/23.0.60/etc/DEBUG for instructions.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)
 of 2008-07-27 on elegiac, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20080727-1)
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10402000
configured using `configure  '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--host' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.60/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.60/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_CA.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  gnus-topic-mode: t
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode: t
  icicle-mode: t
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  erc-stamp-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  msb-mode: t
  global-hl-line-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  cua-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  temp-buffer-resize-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

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C-h v <return> <M-next> C-x 1 <s-right> <down> <down> 
<down> <up> <up> <down> SPC <down> <down> L <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <kp-1> 
<kp-0> <kp-0> <kp-enter> C-s i n i t <up> <up> a i 
n i t i a l - f r a m e - a l i s t SPC f o n t SPC 
s p e c i <C-backspace> s t a t e m e n t SPC i g n 
o r e s <backspace> d C-c C-b H i , <return> <return> 
<C-backspace> W i t h SPC e m a c s <C-backspace> E 
m a c s - s n a p s h o t <C-backspace> <C-backspace> 
e m a c s - s n a p s h o t <menu> b u g <tab> C-a 
C-k C-g C-g C-g <menu> e m a c s - u <tab> <backspace> 
<C-backspace> b u <tab> C-g C-g <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report> i g n o r e d <return> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> C-c C-k y <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> C-c C-k y q <menu> M-p C-g <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<menu> s e n d <tab> <C-backspace> <C-backspace> b 
u g - <tab> C-g C-g C-h k <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report> 
<menu> s e n d - e m a c s - <tab> C-g C-g <menu> r 
e p o r t - e m <tab> b <tab> <return>

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Seb