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jmrbcu

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From: Cuba

Registered: 2007-08-20

Posts: 112

emacs and fonts

hi folks, I don't like my emacs default font, I would like to set my default emacs font to terminus but I can't. How to do that?

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bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: emacs and fonts

set something like:
emacs.font: -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
in your ~/.Xdefaults. You can reload the settings with 'xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults'

jbromley

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 268

Re: emacs and fonts

Try

Emacs*font: -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

in your .Xresources/.Xdefaults file. The difference from the above post is that this will change all fonts in Emacs to terminus. I believe the one in the above post will only affect text in frames, i.e. no modeline, menu bar, menus (if you use them), etc.

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: emacs and fonts

jbromley is right; although I get modeline changed, and menus are from the gtk2 theme. Experiment.

jmrbcu

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From: Cuba

Registered: 2007-08-20

Posts: 112

Re: emacs and fonts

it doesn't work, I had set my .Xdefaults with:

emacs.font: -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

and my Xresources with:

Emacs*font: -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

and nothing work, and I hace installed terminus-font!!!

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tesjo

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Registered: 2007-11-30

Posts: 164

Re: emacs and fonts

Why don't you try to add

(set-default-font "-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")

to your ~/.emacs file.

Edit: I see terminus is not available in xfontsel either. I am not sure why that is but as such I don't think you can use the methods that have been given. Just a note on that though, if you run xfontsel you can find an available font and use .emacs or .Xdefaults

Last edited by tesjo (2008-06-24 16:12:50)

Abelian

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Registered: 2008-04-23

Posts: 63

Re: emacs and fonts

I had an issue with terminus not being in xfontsel earlier - Not sure why it must be a problem with the install script. I loosely followed the instructions here to get it set up: http://64dc.wordpress.com/category/linux/.

freakcode

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From: São Paulo - Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-03

Posts: 410

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Re: emacs and fonts

Doesn't emacs allow Xft font definitions? I'm asking because I don't use it (I use vim), but I'm able to set vim fonts with Xft defitions (Xft are like "*font:Liberation Mono-9").

jmrbcu

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From: Cuba

Registered: 2007-08-20

Posts: 112

Re: emacs and fonts

problem solved, I added to my fontpath definitions in xorg the path of the terminus font (/usr/share/fonts/local), restarted X and, it work!!!. with the first method: emacs.font: -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
now I need to set the same terminus font to emacs running with no window: emacs -nw

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bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: emacs and fonts

'emacs -nw' runs in the terminal, so you need to set the for xterm/urxvt/terminal/whatever you're running.

jmrbcu

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From: Cuba

Registered: 2007-08-20

Posts: 112

Re: emacs and fonts

thanks

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Barrucadu

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From: York, England

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 1,158

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Re: emacs and fonts

Wonderful, I was wondering how to switch font, thanks! I can now use a reasonable font size - like 10, or 8.

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