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On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<stephenjturnbull(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To fix the font parsing issue, you probably need to explicitly
configure
for Xft. Before you ask, Xft is not the default because, frankly speaking,
the implementation in XEmacs sucks. It's only fit for use by people who
don't need to ask the kinds of questions you're asking. That said, *they*
mostly think it's great, so if you're willing to continue asking questions
until you've got things working as you like (you're always welcome to ask
here), add "--with-xft=all" to your configure command and rebuild.
You will need at least the fontconfig and Xft development packages from
your distro. I don't know if those are provided by the command Uwe
suggested, I don't use Ubuntu (or Debian workstation configurations, for
that matter).
It turns out I do have them thanks to Uwe.
I can't guarantee that using Xft will fix the font parsing issue,
as I
believe that GNOME uses a similar syntax to Xft but Xft can't parse it,
and we have no code in place to transform it to Xft's preferred format.
But we should be able to tell you how to transform it by hand.
Actually, it does. I get:
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
when I start xemacs but I can actually see what is in the *scratch* buffer now.
Also, maximizing xemacs doesn't peg the CPU which was the issue that
started me down this path.
Thanks to all for your help!
Bruce
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Bruce Visscher wrote:
I get:
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
when I start xemacs but I can actually see what is in the *scratch* buffer now.
Is this with xft fonts instead of bitmap? If so, it sounds like you're
set. I hope my previous email didn't create a bunch of confusion.
mike
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
Bruce Visscher wrote:
> I get:
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
>
> when I start xemacs but I can actually see what is in the *scratch* buffer now.
Is this with xft fonts instead of bitmap? If so, it sounds like you're
set. I hope my previous email didn't create a bunch of confusion.
mike
Yes, this is after "./configure --with-xft=all", so yes, I have a
working xemacs.
Thanks!
Bruce
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Stephen J. Turnbull
Monday, 19 March
Mon, 19 Mar
5:39 p.m.
New subject: Ubuntu 11.10 issues
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Visscher
<bruce.visscher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
> You will need at least the fontconfig and Xft development
packages from
> your distro. I don't know if those are provided by the command Uwe
> suggested, I don't use Ubuntu (or Debian workstation configurations, for
> that matter).
It turns out I do have them thanks to Uwe.
Well, then, a gold star to Uwe!
Actually, it does. I get:
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Hm. That's weird, to say the least. I wonder where that's coming
from.
when I start xemacs but I can actually see what is in the *scratch*
buffer now.
Ah, all's well that ends well!
As I wrote earlier, you probably won't be able to use the Options to
select fonts, but you should be able to see the list of available families
in the Options | Font menu. M-x set-face-font should do the trick for
actually setting the font, using the fontconfig FAMILY-SIZE:PARAMS
format. There are actually a couple of obnoxious fonts out there that
have hyphen or colon in their family names: quote those characters with
a backslash.
If you have any problems with choosing or setting fonts, please don't
hesitate to ask.
Also, maximizing xemacs doesn't peg the CPU which was the issue
that
started me down this path.
That's probably a known issue with Metacity, which has been worked
around in the most recent versions of XEmacs. But I would think the
distros have that changeset in them it's probably four or five years old
by now.
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