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Display font strangeness in emacs-snapshot
From: |
Ross A. Laird |
Subject: |
Display font strangeness in emacs-snapshot |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:16:32 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
After making some changes to my xorg.conf file (Ubuntu Hardy) to get an
external projector working, emacs-snapshot now seems to want to shrink
itself to a tiny window, with tiny fonts, upon startup. Here's what I
changed in xorg.conf:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes"
"CRT: 1600x1024 +0+0,
DFP: 1920x1200 +0+0;
CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
EndSection
So, my main screen resolution is 1920x1200, and other applications pick
up the font sizes correctly; but emacs-snapshot (GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1
(i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) gives me tiny little text
(about 4 points). The menus show the correct font size (but I assume
those are gtk). In .emacs I have this:
;fonts
(if (>= emacs-major-version 23)
(set-default-font "DejaVu Sans Mono-9"))
I now have to scale the above all the way up to "DejaVu Sans Mono-15" to get
a readable typeface. Now, I can do this, but it seems strange: why would
emacs refer to something as size 15 when that same type size is called 9
by other applications? And besides, why did this change at all? Emacs
was correctly scaling and showing the fonts before I changed xorg.conf.
Perhaps it's a matter of pixel size vs. point size.
Hints and suggestions are welcome.
Cheers.
Ross
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www.rosslaird.info
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