Re: cannot load fonts

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 11:11:22 +0200, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@gmail.com> 
>>>>> said:

    Luca> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 3:04 PM Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@gmail.com> 
wrote:
    >> 
    >> Hi all,
    >> I've compiled Emacs 28.1 without any particular option on Ubuntu
    >> 20.04. Then I've placed the following in my startup file:

    Luca> I found there is a much more annoying problem that I cannot fix: if I
    Luca> select the menu 'Set Default Font', the font menu has only three items
    Luca> with "misc", "courier" and "fontset". This prevents me to select any
    Luca> decent font in the system, and I don't know how to fix it.
    Luca> I've tried to load emacs with, in turn, --no-x-resources,
    Luca> --no-init-file, --no-site-file but nothing changes.
    Luca> I don't have any font settings in XResoucres:

Show us your `system-configuration-features' and `(frame-parameter nil
'font-backend)'

I suspect you donʼt have the development packages installed for
various font-related libraries.

Robert
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