Bug 45499

Summary:

.font resources ignored when compiling --with-xfs

Product:

[Retired] Red Hat Linux

Reporter:

Ville Skyttä <scop>

Component:

xemacs

Assignee:

Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>

Status:

CLOSED RAWHIDE

QA Contact:

Aaron Brown <abrown>

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medium

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low

Version:

7.1

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FutureFeature

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i386

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2001-06-22 10:47:31 UTC

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Fix for menubar and popup fonts	none

Description Ville Skyttä 2001-06-22 10:45:58 UTC

Description of Problem:

When XEmacs is compiled with --with-xfs (at least xemacs-21.1.14-10 for 7.1
seems to be), .font resources are ignored in favor of .fontSet resources.
See /usr/share/xemacs-21.1.14/etc/Emacs.ad or etc/Emacs.ad in the source
tarball, lines 187->

This causes some ugly-looking fonts to be used in XEmacs' menubars and
popups. Applying the attached patch to
/usr/share/xemacs-21.1.14/etc/Emacs.ad and doing xrdb -merge with it fixes
the fonts. I haven't tried recompiling with the patch, but as is said in
the beginning of Emacs.ad, the resources in the file should be compiled in.

How Reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start xemacs

Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2001-06-22 10:47:27 UTC

Created attachment 21545 [details]
Fix for menubar and popup fonts

Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-06-22 15:07:45 UTC

Added to xemacs-21.1.14-14 - thanks for your patch.

Comment 3 Jean-Jacques Duchene 2001-07-24 11:55:57 UTC

I am facing the same problem, and I have tried to apply the patch
in the attachment (adding *menubar*FontSet and popup*FontSet to
X resources and loading them with xrdb). But I have got a warning telling
that it was unable to build a FontSet with: 
-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
and I still have some ugly courier font in menus. I am probably missing
something... but what ?

Comment 4 Jean-Jacques Duchene 2001-09-03 12:01:37 UTC

As there is no answer to my previous comment, some more info:
the line:
*menubar*FontSet: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
leads to this message:
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion 
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"
to type FontSet 
This seems to be due to the LANG variable, which is by default fr_FR@euro
with Redhat 7.1 for France (I think that iso8859-15 encoding, not iso8859-1, is
used with fr_FR@euro, which may cause the problem).
So your patch will not fix the problem for most european users using their
default locale...
Workarounds which worked for me: either set LANG to fr_FR instead of fr_FR@euro,
or use true type fonts which have more charsets.