On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 17:12, Edgar Kalkowski<em...@edgar-kalkowski.de> wrote: > Hi Christian! > > Thank you for this tip but I’m afraid it does not work for me. I executed the > commands you suggested and they worked without printing any error (at first > they did because of a typo of mine). The result is that my Emacs window now > starts up quite small in the middle of the screen and the is almost (before > the actual content is drawn) resized to a bigger size. But this also makes it > appear not centered but rather asymmetrical somewhat left of the center of > the screen. > > Perhaps I’ll try my luck on the Emacs help mailing list in a few days or so. > > Edgar > > > > Am oder ungefähr am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2009, um 16:34:25 schrieb Christian > Himpel: >> Hi, >> >> as a workaround, until someone comes up with a nice lisp solution, you >> can set the font for emacs in your ~/.Xresources (or whatever you call >> it). >> >> For example: >> >> $ cat >> .Xresources << EOF >> Emacs*font: Terminus 10 >> EOF >> $ xrdb -merge .Xresources >> >> At least it works for me (and my tiling wm). >> >> Regards, >> chressie >
Maybe you haven't installed the terminus font? $ pacman -S terminus-font But you can use any other font, of course. An "easy" way to find out what fonts you can use might be: - open your emacs frame - hold the SHIFT key pressed while clicking Mouse button 1 (in the emacs window of course) - select "change buffer font..." and a dialog window should appear - in the "pick a font" dialog you can select a font (Family) and size (Size) - if you found you favourite font, replace the "Emacs*font: Terminus 10" line with your favourite "Emacs*font: Family Size" combination, i.e. $ sed -e 's;\(Emacs\*font:\).*;\1 Monospace 10;' .Xresources - $ xrdb -merge .Xresources btw. if your window manager does not include the .Xresources file automagically, you should do a "$ xrdb -merge .Xresources" in your .xinitrc or whereever Regards, chressie
