set font under options menu does not work

[emacs user]

First a complaint...  :-)

from lisp/Changelog:
2005-01-01  Richard M. Stallman  <address@hidden>
        * dired.el (dired-view-command-alist): Variable deleted.
        (dired-view-file, dired-mouse-find-file-other-window):
        Delete the code to use it.

why was this option eliminated?  I made plenty of good use of this.  Am I 
simply missing some new alternative that is even much better?

and now for the bug report:

emacs -q --no-site-file&
options -> set font/fontset -> choose font.

the problem: the font does not change.


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.41 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.2.1)
of 2005-01-03 on beach.fas.harvard.edu
Distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40300000
configured using `configure '--with-gtk''

Important settings:
 value of $LC_ALL: nil
 value of $LC_COLLATE: C
 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_US.UTF-8
 locale-coding-system: utf-8
 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
 tool-bar-mode: t
 mouse-wheel-mode: t
 menu-bar-mode: t
 unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
 utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
 line-number-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>
<menu-bar> <options> <mouse-set-font> <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> <options>
<mouse-set-font> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <re
port-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Loading mwheel...done
(/usr/local/emacs/src/emacs -q --no-site-file)
Loading tool-bar...done
Loading image...done
Loading tooltip...done
Loading emacsbug...done

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