Re: Display font strangeness in emacs-snapshot

[rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Sep 22, 9:16 pm, r...@rosslaird.info (Ross A. Laird) wrote:
> After making some changes to my xorg.conf file (Ubuntu Hardy) to get an
> external projector working, emacs-snapshot now seems to want to shrink
> itself to a tiny window, with tiny fonts, upon startup. Here's what I
> changed in xorg.conf:
>
> Section "Screen"
>
>     Identifier     "Screen0"
>     Device         "Videocard0"
>     Monitor        "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     Option         "TwinView" "1"
>     Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
>     Option         "metamodes"
>                    "CRT: 1600x1024 +0+0,
>                     DFP: 1920x1200 +0+0;
>                     CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
> EndSection
>
> So, my main screen resolution is 1920x1200, and other applications pick
> up the font sizes correctly; but emacs-snapshot (GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1
> (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) gives me tiny little text
> (about 4 points). The menus show the correct font size (but I assume
> those are gtk). In .emacs I have this:
>
> ;fonts
> (if (>= emacs-major-version 23)
>   (set-default-font "DejaVu Sans Mono-9"))
>
> I now have to scale the above all the way up to "DejaVu Sans Mono-15" to get
> a readable typeface. Now, I can do this, but it seems strange: why would
> emacs refer to something as size 15 when that same type size is called 9
> by other applications? And besides, why did this change at all? Emacs
> was correctly scaling and showing the fonts before I changed xorg.conf.
>
> Perhaps it's a matter of pixel size vs. point size.
>
> Hints and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Ross
>
> --
> Ross A. Laird, PhD www.rosslaird.info

Hardy X  is screwed up in more than one way.  Ive just finished a
reinstall thanks only to that. And its been so for nearly two years!

I tried raising it on the ubuntu forums and was told to shut up.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=773851&page=6.