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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:05:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade
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On 4/29/2010 1:55 PM, Marc Girod wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I just upgraded for the first time for a few months.
> Starting my Gnu emacs under X11, I notice that my font (and frames) is
> larger than previously, by a factor ~1.5.
>
> I did record the following last October, and it stayed the same now:
>
> ~>  cygcheck -c | egrep 'bitstream.*vera'
> font-bitstream-vera-ttf        1.10-1              OK
> ~>  xlsfonts | egrep -- '-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono.*-iso.*-1$'
> -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
> -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
> -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
> -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
> -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
>
> With list-fontsets in the *Help* buffer:
>
> Fontset: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-default
> Fontset: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard
> Fontset: -bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-startup
>
> The X server greets me with a new identity:
>
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 1.8.0.0 (10800000)
> Build Date: 2010-04-02
>
> I join my cygcheck output.
>
> Any explanation and quick fix?
> Thanks,
> Marc
>
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p28403800/cygcheck.100429 cygcheck.100429

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.

Ken

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