Juha Heinanen wrote: > Thanks for the tip. After installing emacs24-lucid, the warnings > disappeared, but I got a new one: > > $ emacs24-lucid > Warning: Cannot convert string "Monospace 10" to type FontStruct > > I have defined in .Xresources > > Emacs*font: Monospace 10 > > and that used to work in emacs24. Fonts! Ugh. We get to discuss fonts. Do I want to open that discussion up? I am not an expert in fonts. But I didn't think that "Monospace 10" was a valid font name. Is that equivalent to 6x10 or 10x20? Try one of these: Emacs*font:6x10 That will probably work for you and you might be happy at that point. But let me try to convince you to try a unicode font. In the old days we would have used fixed width fonts like some of these: 5x7 6x10 7x13 9x15 10x20 12x24 But those are US-ASCII fonts only. All of the non-ascii characters can't be rendered in them. These days UTF-8 is everywhere. So instead of a fixed us-ascii font these days it is really much better to use a unicode font. One of the ISO-10646 fonts. Try an ISO10646 font and then you will have all of the accents and umlauts working. I like the efonts. Fonts are such a personal preference that there is nothing more to be done than just to try fonts and decide on what you like for yourself. apt-get install xfonts-efont-unicode xfonts-efont-unicode-ib Then you can configure emacs to use them this way: XTerm*Font: -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*Font2: -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*Font3: -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*Font4: -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*Font5: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*Font6: -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 You would probably also like these fonts too. xfonts-unifont xfonts-terminus-dos xfonts-terminus-oblique xfonts-terminus You can browse the names of fonts using xlsfonts. xlsfonts | less xlsfonts | grep fixed-medium.*iso10646 | less I am far from a font expert. However I know what I like and people who are really into fonts usually like things I don't like. If you have been using a monospace 10 point font then you probably want one of the fixed medium r normal fonts just like I do. Bob
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