set default terminal font for the GUI from the configure script * configure.ac (DEFAULT_TERMINAL_FONT, DEFAULT_TERMINAL_FONT_SIZE): New variables. Set depending on system type. * common.mk: Substitute them here. (do_subst_qt_settings): New macro. * libgui/default-qt-settings.in: Rename from default-qt-settings. Substitute terminal font and size. * libgui/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute default-qt-settings.in instead of default-qt-settings. (default-qt-settings): New rule. * run-octave.in (OCTAVE_DEFAULT_QT_SETTINGS): Look in build directory for default-qt-settings file.

--- a/configure.ac	Tue Apr 16 01:49:20 2013 -0400
+++ b/configure.ac	Tue Apr 16 13:10:29 2013 -0400
@@ -130,6 +130,19 @@
 OCTAVE_PROG_PAGER
 OCTAVE_PROG_PYTHON
 
+### Default terminal font for the GUI
+case $host_os in
+  mingw* | msdosmsvc)
+    DEFAULT_TERMINAL_FONT="Lucida Console"
+  ;;
+  *)
+    DEFAULT_TERMINAL_FONT="Courier"
+  ;;
+esac
+DEFAULT_TERMINAL_FONT_SIZE=10
+AC_SUBST(DEFAULT_TERMINAL_FONT)
+AC_SUBST(DEFAULT_TERMINAL_FONT_SIZE)
+
 ### Path separator.
 
 sepchar=':'