At Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:34:25 +0200, Christian Himpel wrote: > > 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
Thanks for the tip. :)
