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From: | Joel J. Adamson |
Subject: | Re: Getting emacs23 to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8 font |
Date: | Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:37:16 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"Doctor Who" <whodoctor@gmail.com> writes: > I'm trying to get emacs23 to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8 as the > font. When I try to invoke emacs like this: > > emacs --font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8" > > I get the error: > > Font `Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8' is not defined One way to do it: ,----~/.Xdefaults | | !Emacs | Emacs*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-*-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 | Emacs*cursorColor: magenta | Emacs*foreground: White | Emacs*background: Black | Emacs*borderwidth: 0 | Emacs*bitmapIcon: on | ! Lucid resources: | Emacs.pane.menubar.font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 | Emacs*menu*fontSet: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 | Emacs.dialog*.font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 | Emacs.dialog*.foreground: Black | Emacs.dialog*.background: Gray | Emacs.pane.menubar.foreground: Black | Emacs.pane.menubar.background: Gray `---- $ xrdb ~/.Xdefaults and open Emacs anew. Use xfontsel to find the name of the font that you want (where I have terminus above). Another way is to customize the default face and put in the name of the font under "Family." Joel -- Joel J. Adamson (303) 880-3109 Public key: http://pgp.mit.edu http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj http://trashbird1240.blogspot.com
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