On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 05:41:39PM +0100, Werner Fink wrote:
> > why I asked to describe which code triggers this and how it started
> > affecting us after commit e65c307.
> 
> The only guess I have is that the correction had now enabled the :user-spec
> key/attribute.  For a workaround I've change some lines of code in
> lisp/dynamic-setting.el ... compare with the attached patch.
> 
> With this patch both the custom font if enabled in ~/.emacs as well as
> the system font works here for GNU Emacs with GTK as well as with X11.

Wrong version of the patch, this one seems to be better one ;)

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