Alex, thank you so much for your help
2016-04-16 13:52 GMT+02:00 Alex Kost <[email protected]>: > > OK, this theme shouldn't cause the difference in brightness, I think. I > have another guess. Does Fedora use "site-start.el"? If so, this file > is not loaded by Guix's Emacs, because it is placed somewhere in > /usr/share/... and Guix's Emacs doesn't look at this directory (also our > emacs uses its own "site-start.el" to load emacs packages installed in > "~/.guix-profile"). > > You can check if Fedora's Emacs uses "site-start.el" with this: > > M-x find-library site-start > Yes, the Fedora Emacs has this site-start ;;; loaded before user's ".emacs" file and default.el ;; load *.el and *.elc in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d on startup (mapc 'load (delete-dups (mapcar 'file-name-sans-extension (directory-files "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d" t "\\.elc?\\'")))) (setq source-directory "/usr/share/emacs/24.5/") and the Guix Emacs has (require 'guix-emacs nil t) > > But actually I don't understand how the difference in brightness can > happen at all. This is a mystery for me. > > > There are text properties here: > > face variable-pitch > > You can move the point to 'variable-pitch' button and press RET there to > find out if it has the same customization in both cases. > This is the same for both Emacses Face: variable-pitch (sample) (customize this face) Documentation: The basic variable-pitch face. Defined in `faces.el'. Family: Sans Serif Foundry: unspecified Width: unspecified Height: unspecified Weight: unspecified Slant: unspecified Foreground: unspecified DistantForeground: unspecified Background: unspecified Underline: unspecified Overline: unspecified Strike-through: unspecified Box: unspecified Inverse: unspecified Stipple: unspecified Font: unspecified Fontset: unspecified Inherit: unspecified [back] > > > And this is the Fedora Emacs > [...] > > xft:-PfEd-DejaVu > > Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x56) > > OK, so Fedora's Emacs has a bigger font (19 against 13). > > You can use something like this to set the font and its size: > > (set-frame-font "DejaVu Sans Mono-15" nil t) > you were spot on on this ! In fact evaluating this line made the Guix Emacs window exactly equal to the one of the Fedora Emacs ! > > > But anyway, I made a little screenshot with Shutter just to make the > > difference between the minibuffers more evident > > This should be fixed if you change the font size. > Right ! Even the minibuffer now is reasonably large and readable ! > Another thing: I noticed that Guix's Emacs doesn't display some buttons > on the tool bar. This should probably (I'm not sure) be fixed by > installing some icon theme in your profile, for example > 'adwaita-icon-theme'. > > I installed this adwaita thing but the icons keep not being there Also the Fedora Emacs keeps being a bit brighter But that's not that bad ! The showstopper was the tiny tiny minibuffer And if that's a mistery to you, go figure what it is to me ;-) Thanks for your help ;-)
