bug#5266: Per-host settings

[Reuben Thomas]

2010/1/5 Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>:
> That is not the right syntax, And the family name is probably wrong also (no
> space in DejaVu).  On my machine:

Thanks; bizarrely, the family name, which as you say was wrong, was
copied from a working setting for urxvt; I guess it must somehow make
allowances for spaces; what you suggested:

> emacs.font: DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=14

seems to work fine.

> But you should really use just Monospace and have fonts.config map it for
> you to DejaVu (which it probably does).

I don't have a fonts.config file. To what does it belong? My Ubuntu
system seems to use fontconfig, and "monospace" seems to be used as
DejaVu Sans Mono's default family, though whether that means the
default monospace font is DejaVu Sans Mono, I don't know; certainly
under GNOME I have configured DejaVu Sans Mono as the default
monospaced font in its font preferences.

>> It would be easier if I could set a pixel size customization, but as
>> far as I can see there's no way to do that?
>
> You have to fiddle the height parameter to get what you want.

But of course that doesn't work, as height is dpi-dependent, which is
where I came in: trying to get a dpi-independent, i.e. pixel-based
setting (happens to work better for me across different machines, as I
can't easily seem to get per-machine settings any other way, given
that my Emacs configuration files are synchronised between my
machines, so that my environment is kept up to date on all of them).

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