set-frame-font doesn't work for me

[Joe Corneli]

I have 

Emacs*Font: -Sony-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--24-170-100-100-C-120-ISO8859-1

in my .Xdefaults and something similar in my default-frame-alist.

When I run

(set-frame-font "6x12")

or

(set-frame-font "6x12" t)

The only thing that happens is that the screen flashes.  Maybe its
relevant that I'm running the ratpoison window manager, which has
every window maximized?


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2004-02-29 on hope-of-a-stone.local
configured using `configure '--with-X' '--without-carbon' 
'CFLAGS=-I/sw/include' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include' 'LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib''

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: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
C-s 7 x <down> <down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<return> M-x r e p o r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
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