[SOLVED] Emacs font troubles

[joesmoe10]

Hey,
I'm using emacs 23 on Ubuntu 8.04 and I can't seem to get Consolas to appear. I have Consolas installed, I use it with gnome terminal and gvim but emacs substitutes some ugly proportional font in for it. Here's what I have in my .emacs


(set-default-font "-*-Consolas-normal-r-*-*-14-97-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1")

Thanks
joe

[Jessehk]

Try something like this:

~/.Xresources


Emacs.font: Consolas-11
emacs.FontBackend: xft


followed by



xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources


Assuming you've got a development version of Emacs with xft support; otherwise, delete that line.

[joesmoe10]

thanks, worked perfectly
Do you know why the .emacs set-default-font didn't work?

[Jessehk]

No clue. I've only been using Emacs for a few months. :)

[unutbu]

I also use .Xdefaults to set my emacs font:

Emacs*Font: Monospace-12:antialias=True

However, I've also found that this works:

(set-default-font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-14")
when added to .emacs. I wish I understood the format for these ttf font strings -- I have no clue. However, since the above works, I wonder if this might also work:


(set-default-font "Consolas-11")

[shifty2]

If your using emacs 23 there is an option to set the font through the menus - press C-c C-f and you will get a gtk font dialog box.

If you can get your font from there you should be able to do, as said earlier, (set-default-font "terminus-8") (for example).