Subject: bug#875: 23.0.60; Can't select bitstream vera sans mono as (default) font

From: [email-masked] (M G Berberich)
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 18:32:52 +0200 (CEST)

I just installed the 20080727 emacs-snapshot and are not able to
select "Vera Sans Mono-9" as font. In older versions this was possible
via X-Resource, no emacs has a GUI to select the font, but It ignores
the selection.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2008-09-03 on luthien, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20080727-1)
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000
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''

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: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  msb-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
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<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> 
M-x r e p o <tab> <tab> r t <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Loading /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/muse-el/muse-autoloads.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50muse-el.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50octave2.9-emacsen.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50post-el.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50psvn.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50sawfish.el (source)...done
Loading msb...done
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