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: cvs emacs scales fonts to awfully big? Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:38:27 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230424797 19016 80.91.229.12 (28 Dec 2008 00:39:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:39:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Peter Tury Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 28 01:41:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LGjhl-0003tL-5X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:40:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40884 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LGjgW-0005eI-EF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:39:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LGjgF-0005e3-Qv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:38:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LGjg9-0005aR-C8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:38:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49895 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LGjg9-0005aO-6K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:38:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:39088) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LGjg8-0002DJ-52 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:38:49 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB312FB21271; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:38:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [91.35.191.162] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.110 #273) id 1LGjfu-0002Ez-00; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:38:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1980dUagSJh/hQv8zsFgZvkZ0cASD+6zkqfG1Wg 404ZO2MIAruhxQk7S+jDGPwl6DGwR64DCDcVUkqhUPfvA1NZmg jFJmRfX4ekMeajR4CYuA== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:60943 Archived-At: Am 28.12.2008 um 00:18 schrieb Peter Tury: > Did I do something wrong at compilation of Emacs? Does something > missing from my Ubuntu? What to check? In KDE and GNOME there are rule settings about appropriate font sizes. An optimised bitmapped font for 100 DPI is larger than the same font for 75 DPI. When the X11 font path has the 100 DPI font before the 75 DPI fonts than these larger fonts are used. GNU Emacs 23.0.60 uses libXft. When a 100 DPI display is assumed by Xft then quite large 75 DPI fonts might be used ... You could add to your X defaults a setting like this: Xft.dpi: 96 or a value closer to your display's resolution. It might also help to run your X server with your display's resolution. Some X servers evaluate the contents of a ~/.xserverrc file. -- Greetings Pete Who the fsck is "General Failure," and why is he reading my disk?