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25.1; GNU emacs 25.1: custom-set-faces from init file ~/.emacs ignored

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: werner <at> suse.de, rostislav.svoboda <at> gmail.com, 25228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25228: 25.1; GNU emacs 25.1: custom-set-faces from init file ~/.emacs ignored
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:18:03 +0100

> So all this disaster happens because 96.281588447653434 compares not
> equal to 96, is that right?

Here ;-)

That's why I wanted Werner to counter-check.  And there was the original
author of this issue - Rostislav Svoboda.  IIRC I tried to contact him
once but he did not respond, anyway let's try again.

> Would the problem be solved, both for you
> and for Werner, if we compare these values after rounding them to the
> nearest integer?  It looks to me that xsettings.c reads the new value
> as an integer to begin with, so it makes no sense to compare
> fractional values.  And AFAIK about DPI (which is very little, and
> nothing about Gsettings and Xft), the DPI values are always integers.

Nothing guarantees that such a silly discrepancy does not show up
somehwere else.  But I certainly won't mind using this as workaround for
Emacs 25.2.

martin

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