Re: fatal font problem with emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 23.10.2006 um 03:48 schrieb BillJosephson:

> Thanks, Peter. Frankly, your reply is a bit above my head. How would I
> know if I have X resources set for GNU Emacs? Or how to set an  
> existing
> font?

There is a file ~/.Xdefaults. It is read when X11 launches. The X  
resources from this file (and others for this purpose) configure the  
look of X clients.

You know what X11 is? You are working on some BSD or Linux system?  
Here the command xlsfonts lists all available fonts for the  
configuration active. 'xset -q' shows the font path and other details  
of your X11 configuration. ~/.xinitrc is probably the file that sets  
up this configuration.

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  Pete

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