Re: set-default-font

[David Masterson]

David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Maybe the original build was with GTK, and this one, with Lucid,
>> doesn't have the nice font selection dialog?  What you describe is the
>> Emacs's internal fallback which shows fonts known in advance to exist,
>> with no relation to the font back-end in use.  This "not nice" menu is
>> shown if x-select-font function is not available.
>
> Ah, I'll investigate that.  Sounds like I need to install another
> library.  Thanks.

Followup: from the code in xfns.c, it appears that x-select-font is only
defined if you are using GTK and FreeType. With Lucid, you get the
internal fallback.

Maybe I'll try rebuilding with GTK.
--
David Masterson