bug#57962: 29.0.50; Odd font choices

[Po Lu]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Just to:
>
> (defface fixed-pitch
>   '((t :family "monospace-10"))
>   "The basic fixed-pitch face."
>   :group 'basic-faces)
>
> ?

Yes.

> I.e., it's not just the size difference, but also that they use
> different font shapes.

What happens if you try setting it to each of the following in order?
(The list below was taken straight from xfns.c.)

#if defined USE_CAIRO || defined HAVE_XFT
            /* This will find the normal Xft font.  */
            "monospace-10",
#endif
            "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1",
            "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1",
            "-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1",
            /* This was formerly the first thing tried, but it finds
               too many fonts and takes too long.  */
            "-*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1",
            /* If those didn't work, look for something which will
               at least work.  */
            "-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1",
            "fixed",

It's a long shot, but if it still doesn't work then I'm really out of
ideas.