HOWTO: Fix big and ugly Emacs fonts

[katmandu]

This one is simple. In file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in sections "Files", put all 75dpi fonts dirs right before the 100dpi fonts dir, like this:

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
# paths to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

This will make Emacs fonts smaller and better looking, without any changes in .emacs file, in wich some cases makes Emacs start slowly.

[bryan.taylor]

Thanks very much for the tip. It's not as pretty as I would like, but I can live with it.

[TheSoko]

katmandu's fix didn't work for me. But apparently you can change the font emacs uses with the -fn argument, so I went into KDE's menu editor and changed it to this:


/usr/bin/emacs21 -i -fn -*-clean-*-*-*-*-14-*