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Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu> writes:

François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> writes:

Bonjour,

I have this line in my init file .emacs :

(set-face-font 'default "fontset-default")
(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'grantha "Noto Serif Grantha")

And emacs complains that it cannot find this font.

If I test the installed fonts with fc-list, I get this answer:

fc-list |grep Grantha
/usr/share/fonts/google-noto/NotoSerifGrantha-Regular.ttf: Noto Serif
Grantha:style=Regular

So the font is installed.... Why this complaint? And how can I debug?

I add that this was perfectly working in my previous linux install,
did I miss something in my new installation?

My first guess is that somehow you're not getting the font name right.
If you tell

xlsfonts | grep rantha

to your shell, what do you get?

By the way, I set my GNU EMACS font using an X resource:

$ cat ~/.Xresources | grep emacs.font
emacs.font: -misc-fira code medium-medium-r-normal--17-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
$

I feel using an X resource sets the font quicker avoiding you noticing a resize of the window. (If I recall correctly. It's been weeks since I started the GNU EMACS.)

Good luck!

This is all I have in my config for the font:

(set-frame-font "DejaVu Sans Mono 11" nil t)

I believe it is for this font (from fc-list):

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book
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