I like the variable font size feature that emacs has under xwindows.
But, I dislike the menus under xwindows. They are generated by GTK or something and they stick out like a sore thumb.
Can I use emacs's rendering engine instead of GTK to draw the menus when I'm running under xwindows? Would that allow me to customize their appearance the same way I'd customize the appearance of the modeline?
If I build emacs with configure --with-x --with-x-toolkit=no
, I get an emacs which looks like this:
Unfortunately, these menus are worse and now my emacs no longer supports the xwidgets stuff (not that I've played with it anyway).
curses
family of libraries. It seems unlikely that your graphical frame will be able to leveragecurses
. Also, it seems that the variable font sizes that you like in xwindows are precisely the thing that would make it hard to implement such a feature, even as an extension. – nispio Dec 20 '16 at 20:00curses
library for menus. Thanks for the insight. – daveloyall Dec 20 '16 at 22:27