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#64270
30.0.50; Font update for no toolkit menu
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Reported by: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2023 17:01:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 30.0.50
Fixed in version 30.1
Done: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #8 received at 64270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2023 19:00:04 +0200
> From: Manuel Giraud via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>
> I'd like to be able to update the menu font (for the no toolkit build)
> at runtime. For this, my idea was to pass the font (from say the menu
> face) to the XMenuCreate call in x_menu_show.
Doesn' paneFont X resource already allow that?
> I thought that the font's XLFD string would be a good candidate to pass
> this information since it should be understood by XLoadQueryFont. But
> unfortunately, the XLFD returned by font_unparse_xlfd are not.
>
> For instance, XLoadQueryFont can understand
> "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-22-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" but not
> "-misc-fixed-regular-r-normal-*-22-*-*-*-*-*-*-*". Do you think I need
> a function to « normalize » the XLFD returned by font_unparse_xlfd? Or
> maybe I'm missing something?
>
> FTR, here is a patch of what I have started:
Did you try a font name instead?
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