23.0.60; Setting font during startup makes emacs window enormous

23.0.60; Setting font during startup makes emacs window enormous

[Alec Berryman]

When I start up emacs with the following configuration item:

(when window-system
  (set-default-font "DejaVu Sans Mono-14"))

the emacs window created is larger than my screen.  When I comment it out, it
comes up at a reasonable size.

It appears that when the new font is selected, emacs keeps the same relative
window dimensions even though the font choice means fewer lines/columns.  I'm
using a tiling window manager, xmonad, which lays out windows automatically
according to a predefined specification; in this case, I've asked it to make
all windows full-screen by default.  When I resize the windows on the screen by
changing the layout specification, emacs is drawn correctly.

This behavior isn't more than a few weeks old; I haven't rebuilt emacs in a
while, but it worked previously.

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In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.8 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.5)
 of 2008-03-09 on barry
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10300000
configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--enable-font-backend' '--prefix=/home/alec/local/emacs''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
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  partial-completion-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

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Re: 23.0.60; Setting font during startup makes emacs window enormous

[Christoph Conrad]

Hi Alec,

* Alec Berryman <alec@thened.net> wrote:

> (set-default-font "DejaVu Sans Mono-14")

Try using keep-size:

,----
| (set-default-font font-name &optional keep-size)
| 
| [...]
| 
| The default behavior is to keep the numbers of lines and columns in
| the frame, thus may change its pixel size. If optional keep-size is
| non-nil (interactively, prefix argument) the current frame size (in
| pixels) is kept by adjusting the numbers of the lines and columns.
`----

so simply call (set-default-font "DejaVu Sans Mono-14" t).

With kind regards,
Christoph