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mefyl
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 Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 5:00 pm Post subject: Enable xft USE flag for Emacs in desktop profiles ? |
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Hi there,
while installing on a new laptop with a HDPI display, my Emacs was stuck with lilliputian font size. It was unable to change size and did not list the (many) fonts I had installed on X. After some digging around, I found out that I needed the "xft" USE flag enabled for this to work correctly. My hunch is that desktop profiles should enable this as it seems to be a reasonable default ? One hardly wants to not be able to use X fonts in emacs on a desktop setup I suppose, and the issue was quite frustrating while it could work out of the box.
I'm not too experienced with profiles and reporting such issues, so feel free to correct my logic or my ways.
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renee77
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 9:29 pm Post subject: Re: Enable xft USE flag for Emacs in desktop profiles ? |
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| mefyl wrote: | Hi there,
while installing on a new laptop with a HDPI display, my Emacs was stuck with lilliputian font size. It was unable to change size and did not list the (many) fonts I had installed on X. After some digging around, I found out that I needed the "xft" USE flag enabled for this to work correctly. My hunch is that desktop profiles should enable this as it seems to be a reasonable default ? One hardly wants to not be able to use X fonts in emacs on a desktop setup I suppose, and the issue was quite frustrating while it could work out of the box.
I'm not too experienced with profiles and reporting such issues, so feel free to correct my logic or my ways.
Cheers, |
No idea if your logic makes sense. I think gentoo is about configuring with a freedom of choice in what to or how to install your system.
Now about that use flag in /etc/portage you have a package.use directory or file
- with the directory you have to create and edit
/etc/portage/package.use/emacs-comon-gentoo (filling in you are refering to this package)
put in file
app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo xft
- with /etc/portage/package.use file add the same line
app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo xft
first is refering to package second is useflag you can add more flags by separating them with a space
goodluck |
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