The current in-development versions of Debian and Ubuntu recently got updated to Emacs 24.3 from 24.2. This broke one of my very long-standing customizations. It's entirely possible that I'm doing something stupid in my .emacs files, but maybe it's a known bug. I can certainly fix my own code in the former case, but if it's the latter, and there's a fix available in Emacs vcs, I'll cherry pick a patch for those two distros. Specifically, I set a font for the default face and it shows up fine in the initial frame for both 24.2 and 24.3. It also shows up fine in new frame (C-x 5 2) but *only* for 24.2. In 24.3, I get the wrong font. Here are some code excerpts. My default face is customized: ... (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(default ((t (:inherit nil :stipple nil :background "Grey27" :foreground "LightCyan" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 115 :width normal :foundry "unknown" :family "Monospace")))) ... But I also set it in (essentially) my .emacs file: (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Ubuntu Mono" :height 120) In the initial frame with both Emacsen, and on new frames in 24.2, my default face is indeed Ubuntu Mono, as shown by C-u C-x = ... xft:-unknown-Ubuntu Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x2C) In new frames on 24.3 however, the font is wrong: xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x2C) What's going on? Is it me or is it Emacs? ;) Cheers, -Barry