[xmonad] Problem with Emacs and XMonad

[Sean Escriva]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:29:30PM +0200, Deniz Dogan wrote:
> 2009/6/9 Constantine Verutin <cverutin at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi
> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Since I started using Emacs 23 (from CVS) I've been having problems
> >> with it when using XMonad [1].  Is anyone else experiencing this
> >> problem?  I talked to the people on the  emacs-devel mailing list, but
> >> none of them seemed to know whether this is caused by Emacs or XMonad.
> >>  Does anyone here know?
> >>
> >> [1] http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7521/200906061652201280x800s.png
> >
> > The solution is to set up emacs font in .Xresources, not in ~/.emacs
> >
> > --
> > WBR,
> > Constantine
> 
> Thanks for your reply. This method worked just fine in earlier
> versions of Emacs 23, but since a few months ago, it doesn't seem to
> work anymore. Setting the font in ~/.emacs doesn't work either, so I'm
> kind of lost for ideas.

This method was reported to work by someone on IRC, but you may want to contact
the author:

http://github.com/Nafai77/config/blob/e7e2591a69160f90e95b00b69aac41954345ebb4/HOME/_emacs#L70

-sme