Subject: bug#42304: 27.0.50; Emacs does not adjust to global font scaling anymore

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:32:59 +0300

> From: Torsten Bronger <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:06:43 +0200
> 
> If I re-scale all fonts on my Gnome desktop with e.g.
> 
> dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/text-scaling-factor 2.0
> 
> Emacs is the only application that does not change its font size
> accordingly.  Instead, I have to re-start Emacs.  This used to work
> properly.  The problem was introduced with commit f208d5ae77.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
>  of 2020-07-10 built on brad
> Repository revision: 3f9d96e3d70e94768add7d89ffcb94be7de4597e
> Repository branch: HEAD

You seem to be using a very old version of the Emacs repository.
Could you please try building the latest emacs-27 branch, or the
latest pretest 27.0.91 of the upcoming Emacs 27?  You can find the
pretest on alpha.gnu.org.

Thanks.