On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 15:37, <andre.ramacio...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
Hi, as a workaround, until someone comes up with a nice lisp solution, you can set the font for emacs in your ~/.Xresources (or whatever you call it). For example: $ cat >> .Xresources << EOF Emacs*font: Terminus 10 EOF $ xrdb -merge .Xresources At least it works for me (and my tiling wm). Regards, chressie