Re: font setting stopped working in Emacs 22 (Ubuntu)

[bramble]

On Oct 25, 6:14 am, Jason Rumney <jasonrum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 Oct, 23:46, bramble <cadet.bram...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-
> > iso10646-1
>
> Emacs-22 requires a Latin-1 font for displaying ASCII text, so change
> the final iso10646-1 to iso8859-1. If you don't have an exact match,
> use xlsfonts to see how close you can get.

Interestingly enough, it turns out that it works with the original
font name (with the 10646 in it).

I got it to work by changing "emacs.font:" in my ~/.Xresources to
"emacs22.font". There seems to be an Ubuntu bug here. Even though I
install the main Emacs 22 package named "emacs", and it grabs its
dependency (emacs22-gtk), I don't get an executable named "emacs". I
only get one named "emacs22".

Thanks.