Ubuntu 11.10 issues

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer at xemacs.org> wrote:
>>
>> >  xemacs -eval "(shell-command (concat \"echo \" (face-font-name 'default) \" > `tty`\"))" -kill
>>
>> xemacs -batch -eval "(princ ...)"
>>
>> is the way to do this.
>
> Thanks.  Unfortunately, -batch apparently does something so that
>
>  (face-font-name 'default)
>
> yields nil.

Yeah, that sounds right.  face-font-name will instantiate the
specifier, and if you're in batch, you'll get nothing.  face-font
returns the whole specifier, which will be printed out.

> FWIW, I think his XEmacs is configured for bitmap fonts.

OK, then he'll have to use X11 XLFDs.

> And I don't understand why he's not able to see text, unless it has
> something to do with falling back to Courier when Courier isn't
> available.

That may be it, but I would think that would produce an error if no
font can be instantiated.