bug#36288: 27.0.50; Cannot use menu-set-font

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: 36288@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:19:05 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:56:52 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
> 
>     >> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
>     >> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:32:34 +0200
>     >> Cc: 36288@debbugs.gnu.org
>     >> 
>     >> I tried a different variant:
>     >> 
>     >> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font-backend x xfthb))
> 
>     Eli> Where did you put this?  In the init file? or just evaluated it after
>     Eli> Emacs started?  In the latter case, it will be in effect only for
>     Eli> frames created henceforth.
> 
> I evaluated it, and then created a new frame, and ran menu-set-font
> from there. Although I just retested with it in init.el and the result
> is the same.

This seems to be X- (and maybe also GTK-) specific.