Re: Make font chosen by S-mouse-1 permanent

[Sam Peterson]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:05:31
+0100 didst step forth and proclaim thus:

> Am 15.02.2008 um 00:04 schrieb Sam Peterson:
>
>> Hello, I'm having a time figuring out what I can do to make the font
>> chosen in the mouse menu by shift mouse 1 permanent for all frames
>> each time I start Emacs.  I've tried customizing the default face but
>> haven't had much luck.
>
>       (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font .
> "fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"))
>
> or such. There is also initial-frame-alist. Both have much more options.
>
Cool, thank you! I knew about that variable but didn't have a good
idea of what to put in it, the following did the trick nicely.

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "fixed"))

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Sam Peterson
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