Christopher Howard cmhowa...@alaska.edu writes:
I have this in ~/.emacs.d/gtkrc:
# Define the style ‘my_style’.
style my_style
{
font_name = Ubuntu 9
}
# Specify that widget type ‘*emacs-menuitem*’ uses ‘my_style’.
widget *emacs-menuitem* style my_style
With further research: The problem
Hi. I just finished installing emacs-24.2. The graphical (gtk-based)
version starts fine; however, the text in all the menus (including the
tiles) is garbled (more specifically, replaced by empty box characters).
The error given one the command line is:
quote:
(process:27651):
With further research: The problem seems to be (near as I can tell) that
emacs (through fontconfig) was looking for fonts in the standard X11 font
directory, but no such directory exists, because the host system does not
have X11. I was able to resolve this by using nix-env to install some font
