Emacs: GUI with emacs --daemon not loading fonts correctly

I set up an emacs --daemon in order to startup emacs 开发者_Go百科faster. I like especially the GUI version of emacs, so I do emacsclient -c to open a new emacs frame.

The problem is that I have changed my fonts, but these fonts aren't loaded if I start emacsclient -c. However, they are applied if I start just emacs (but this causes the whole .emacs to be evaluated).

So: Is there a way of applying my font settings also if I start emacs with emacsclient -c?

In short, you have to use default-frame-alist for that. Like this:

(setq default-frame-alist '((font . "Inconsolata-dz-15")))

This will be evaluated every time you start a new, graphical frame in Emacs. This is also where you save other frame-related settings, like settings for your fringe and such.

The following will probably do what you are looking for.

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "Inconsolata-12"))

If you're using Emacs 23.2 changing the monospaced font in GNOME will change the Emacs font as well. In earlier edition you'll have to do this:

echo "Emacs.font: Monospace-10" >> ~/.Xresources
xrdb

Replace Monospace-10 with the actual font you want to use.

emacslient has an option -F (--frame-parameters) that lets you specify the font of a newly-created frame

Example:

emacsclient -c -F '((font . "8x16"))'  some_file