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Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?


From: Deniz Dogan
Subject: Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:08:07 +0200

2009/6/10 Miles Bader <address@hidden>:
> Deniz Dogan <address@hidden> writes:
>> Having talked to some people on the XMonad mailing list, it seems that
>> it is probably Emacs that has the bug in this case. I'm starting Emacs
>> using "emacs -Q" with .Xdefaults and .Xresources completely empty and
>> even then things are off! Could it be anything else on my computer
>> breaking this? This is when using a fresh CVS checkout.
>
> Can you provide an exact recipe for recreating the problem?
>
> As .Xresources is merely used to initialize the server's resource
> database, are you sure that's happening?
>
> Try the following:
>
>   cd /tmp
>   xrdb -remove
>   echo 'Emacs*Font: Monospace 9' | xrdb
>   HOME=/tmp emacs -Q &
>
> -Miles

Thank you for the straight-forward instructions! However, this was
unsuccessful as well. It's not the exact same problem, but it's still
off, not displaying the echo area or the modeline.

Screenshot:
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/4117/200906101606201280x800s.png

-- 
Deniz Dogan




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