On 4/29/2010 3:16 PM, Marc Girod wrote:
Ken Brown-6 wrote:[This should have gone to the cygwin-xfree list. I've set the reply-to accordingly.] ... This is a result of the change in the default server DPI announced in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2010-04/msg00000.html As the announcement states, you may want to set Xft.dpi in your ~/.Xdefaults. Setting it to 75 will restore the previous font and frame sizes in emacs under X11.I repost, since nabble didn't obey the reply-to. Sounds simple and clear, but I do it, and get the same result...? 2009> ll ~/.Xdefaults -rw-r--r-- 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 12 2010-04-29 19:18 /home/emagiro/.Xdefaults 2009> cat ~/.Xdefaults Xft.dpi: 75 I tried a smaller value (50), but no effect.
I'm sorry, I had forgotten that I've been using a GTK+ build of emacs, which I'm testing in preparation for the upcoming release of emacs 23.2. My advice works for that build, but not for the current emacs-X11 package, which was built with Xaw.
What if you just use a smaller font, for instance by putting the following in your ~/.Xdefaults:
Emacs.font: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-9 Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
