At Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:15:46 +0200, Edgar Kalkowski wrote: > > Hello list! > > I know this is not an Arch specific question but I thought maybe something > similar occurred to someone here and he knows a solution. > > I just updated to Emacs 23 which has new fancy font code with antialiasing > etc. However the default font of 12pt is way too big for my taste. So I > changed it to 10pt and saved the configuration to my ~/.emacs file. > > Everything works fine -- the font is smaller now -- but: Every time I start > Emacs now the window first resizes to the dimensions that would be needed by > the old (bigger) font. The (yet empty) window is then displayed and layouted > by the window manager (KDE 4’s kwin). I configured it to center all new > windows by default because I like it that way. Then the Emacs window resizes > itself to match the new (smaller) font and the window is no longer centered! > > This may seem like a minor issue and I know it is. But it nevertheless annoys > me and I did not find a way to change this behaviour! Is there a way to do > so? Emacs should just first resize the window to match the font size the user > has actually configured and then display the window! > > Greetings! > > Edgar >
I have a similar problem, but it's the opposite: I use a tiling WM, so Emacs starts maximized and then, when it changes the font, it grows beyond the screen border. I'd like to hear if someone knows a solution. Greetings, Andre