Re: Emacs fullscreen and sizes in frame parameters

[David Engster]

chad writes:
> On 09 Jun 2013, at 02:40, David Engster <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> And yes, I'm working on X11. So I'm now back at how to choose the right
>> font for a real fullscreen frame. I guess "5x8" should be OK for almost
>> all common resolutions, but I can't be sure. So the question remains if
>> I can somehow fake this... The optimum would be a fake font with 1 pixel
>> height. :-)
>
> You might see if modern X11 systems still recognize the font `nil2'.

Actually yes, nil2 is still there, but I cannot use it in Emacs for some
reason. 'xterm -fn nil2' works, and I see that nil2 is an alias for

-misc-nil-medium-r-normal--2-20-75-75-c-10-misc-fontspecific

but Emacs tells me

  'Font `nil2' is not defined'.

-David