Invalid font name

[Joon Ro]

Hi,

I am using GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4). I
have custom font Inconsolata-g in my ~/.fonts folder, and I have set it as
the Monospace font in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf.

It works well except Emacs is giving me error: Invalid font name,
-unknown-Inconsolata-g-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 at
launch.

If I change monospace font (to a DejaVu Sans Mono, for example), then Emacs
launch without problem, but when I do M-x set-default-font, and select
-unknown-Inconsolata-g-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1, I
also get Invalid font name:
"-unknown-Inconsolata-g-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1",
even though I inputted it through auto-completion.

Best,

Joon

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.06.2013 um 16:33 schrieb Joon Ro:

> I
> have custom font Inconsolata-g in my ~/.fonts folder, and I have set it as
> the Monospace font in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf.
>
> It works well except Emacs is giving me error: Invalid font name,
> -unknown-Inconsolata-g-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 at
> launch.

You are mixing up font related things! The fonts.conf file is related to libfontconfig (see for example fontconfig-user.pdf or fontconfig-user.html). The font name you pass is according to the XLFD – pretty old, last millennium, needs to set up differently (with xset).

Give GNU Emacs the fontconfig font name:

emacs -fn Inconsolata-g-15

And maybe it fails again, because the "-" character is used as a separator…

--
Greetings

Pete

Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
– Mark Twain

[Joon Ro]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_...@web.de>wrote:

> You are mixing up font related things! The fonts.conf file is related to
> libfontconfig (see for example fontconfig-user.pdf or
> fontconfig-user.html). The font name you pass is according to the XLFD –
> pretty old, last millennium, needs to set up differently (with xset).
>
>

Thanks for the reply. But I am not mixing up the settings - what I meant
was that in my system, Inconsolata-g is set as default Monospace font, and
when I run Emacs it raises the error. I had the following font settings in
.emacs file, ::

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Monospace 10")

Of course I have tried

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Inconsolata-g-10")

as well, but emacs raised the same error.

> Give GNU Emacs the fontconfig font name:
>
> emacs -fn Inconsolata-g-15
>
>

Actually this did work! Thanks. How do I put this option to .emacs?

Best,
Joon

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.06.2013 um 22:57 schrieb Joon Ro:

> How do I put this option to .emacs?

Recently I recommended this:

(setq initial-frame-alist '(
(mouse-color . "midnightblue")
(foreground-color . "grey20")
(background-color . "alice blue")
(internal-border-width . 2)
(line-spacing . 1)
(active-alpha . 0.875)
(inactive-alpha . 0.75)
(font . "Courier-9")
(top . 25) (left . 650) (width . 91) (height . 50)))

(setq default-frame-alist '(
(border-color . "#4e3831")
(foreground-color . "grey10")
(background-color . "ghost white")
(vertical-scroll-bars . left)
(cursor-color . "purple")
(cursor-type . box)
(active-alpha . 0.75)
(inactive-alpha . 0.875)
(font . "Courier New-9")
(top . 50) (left . 150) (width . 89) (height . 56)))

The important lines are those with font…

--
Greetings

Pete

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

[Joon Ro]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_...@web.de> wrote:

>
>
> Recently I recommended this:
>
> (setq initial-frame-alist '(
> (mouse-color . "midnightblue")
> (foreground-color . "grey20")
> (background-color . "alice blue")
> (internal-border-width . 2)
> (line-spacing . 1)
> (active-alpha . 0.875)
> (inactive-alpha . 0.75)
> (font . "Courier-9")
> (top . 25) (left . 650) (width . 91) (height . 50)))
>
> (setq default-frame-alist '(
> (border-color . "#4e3831")
> (foreground-color . "grey10")
> (background-color . "ghost white")
> (vertical-scroll-bars . left)
> (cursor-color . "purple")
> (cursor-type . box)
> (active-alpha . 0.75)
> (inactive-alpha . 0.875)
> (font . "Courier New-9")
> (top . 50) (left . 150) (width . 89) (height . 56)))
>
> The important lines are those with font…
>
>

This worked. Thank you very much!

Best,
Joon