From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Font and Window Size in emacs Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:00:54 +0200 Message-ID: <4d7a73ba1f745320250aa2580289c382@Web.DE> References: <11eprddrb82kd83@corp.supernews.com> <11eshe6qv1ovf88@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122999847 29719 80.91.229.2 (2 Aug 2005 16:24:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 16:24:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 02 18:24:00 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no ([193.71.71.242]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzzVt-00088W-W1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:21:10 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.13.1/8.13.1/GN) with ESMTP id j71I9DE7026652 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:09:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dzela-0002mc-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:11:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dzejy-0002Hg-3A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:10:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dzejs-0002EB-0w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:10:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dzejq-0002BQ-8j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.209] (helo=smtp05.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dzen6-0006zh-ME for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:13:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.245.189.223] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.105 #314) id 1Dzeav-0001dk-00; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:00:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: <11eshe6qv1ovf88@corp.supernews.com> X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: "Joe Hesse" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28354 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28354 Am 01.08.2005 um 17:54 schrieb Joe Hesse: > Do I have to do all of the above just to get 14 pt font instead of the > default 12 pt? No, of course not. But it's so rare that one size fits all wants ... and it's just some practise with replace-string or replace-regexp ... > Also, I created a .Xdefaults file and put in: > Emacs*geometry 1280x1024 > It didn't work for me. > The syntax says that between key and value there has to be a colon, and, to be exact, this colon has to touch the key. And then you need to feed the database with the new setting. So you either need to invoke xrdb or you need to log-off and log-in again ... Spend some time with 'man X' and 'man xrdb', best in Emacs. Could be that the most correct X ressource setting is: Emacs*geometry: 1280x1024+0+0 -- Greetings Pete "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook