Re: fatal font problem with emacs

[BillJosephson]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 23.10.2006 um 03:48 schrieb BillJosephson:
>
> > Thanks, Peter. Frankly, your reply is a bit above my head. How would I
> > know if I have X resources set for GNU Emacs? Or how to set an
> > existing
> > font?
>
> There is a file ~/.Xdefaults. It is read when X11 launches. The X
> resources from this file (and others for this purpose) configure the
> look of X clients.
>
> You know what X11 is? You are working on some BSD or Linux system?
> Here the command xlsfonts lists all available fonts for the
> configuration active. 'xset -q' shows the font path and other details
> of your X11 configuration. ~/.xinitrc is probably the file that sets
> up this configuration.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>
> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
> discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
>                                        Isaac Asimov


Hi Pete, thanks for responding again. xlsfonts indeed causes a long
printout of what seem to be font names. xset -q indeed shows the path,


/usr/NX/share/fonts,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/home/bill/.fonts

I don't see .xinitrc. But, I don't know what to do with all this. Where
to go next, so to speak.

Thanks. Sorry for being a unix dummy.

Jim