emacs23 does not apply gnome appearance properties for fonts
Bug #460683 reported by
dhenry
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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emacs23 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: emacs23
On karmic, emacs23 does not follow font settings as set in Gnome Appearance Properties. This is similar to:
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Fixes given in above bugs works for emacs23 (for example, editing ~/.fonts.conf).
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This should be fixed when Emacs gets updated to 23.2 and built with gconf (and font-use- system- font set is set to non-nil.) No telling when that might happen, though: https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ emacs23/ +bug/588203
From the News file ( http:// www.gnu. org/software/ emacs/NEWS. 23.2 ): system- font' feature (see below).
** Emacs compiles with Gconf support, if it is detected.
Use the configure option --without-gconf to disable this.
This is used by the `font-use-
** Font changes
*** Emacs can use the system default monospaced font in Gnome. system- font' to non-nil (it is
To enable this feature, set `font-use-
nil by default). If the system default changes, Emacs changes also.
This feature requires Gconf support, which is automatically included
at compile-time if configure detects the gconf libraries (you can
disable this with the configure option --without-gconf).
*** On X11, Emacs reacts to Xft changes made by configuration tools,
via the XSETTINGS mechanism. This includes antialias, hinting,
hintstyle, RGBA, DPI and lcdfilter changes.