Re: Font sources

[Mathias Megyei]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 18:48 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:
> After messing with applications most of the day, I rebooted.
> 
> On calling up emacs, I'm missing the fonts.
> I can't find anywhere where it tells me how emacs links
> through to the (presumably X ) font selections.
> 
> 
> I can run Open office and all the fonts are there.
> 
> Emacs tells me
> Warning: no fonts matching
> `-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' available [2
> times]
> Warning: no fonts matching
> `-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' available
> Warning: no fonts matching `-*-*-*-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' 
> available
> Warning: no fonts matching `-*-*-*-*-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' 
> available
> Warning: no fonts matching `-*-*-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
> available [2 times]
> 
> 
> How does Emacs link out to the fonts available on the system?
> Is it configured at build time?
> I rebuilt in case anything had changed. No difference.

You can list of the available fonts with

xlsfonts

Write one of them into the file ~/.Xresources. 
Eg.
Emacs.Font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-1

Reload this file

xrdb -load ~/.Xresources

After starting a new Emacs it should use that font.

Regards,

Mathias