Re: set font problem

[Joel J. Adamson]

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> writes:

> On Friday 14 March 2008 Peter Dyballa's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote:
>> Am 14.03.2008 um 08:26 schrieb Luca Ferrari:
>> > (set-frame-font "-*-Courier-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")
>>
>> Maybe you should just choose a useful encoding, -iso10646-1 for
>> example ... Otherwise GNU Emacs might not be able to choose one font
>> from a dozen or some dozens.
>>
>
> Peter, could please be more specific? I don't understand that.

He means that after you edit .Xdefaults, you use the command

$ xrdb .Xdefaults

to update the databse of X variables.

I just use M-! xrdb .Xdefaults RET in Emacs.  Of course if you're using
Emacs, you may need to restart Emacs, or open a new frame ;)

Joel

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