Subject: bug#4547 closed by Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> (Re: bug#4547: emacs 23.1: very large font)

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:09:02 +0000

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#4547: a bug: emacs 23.1: very large font

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Subject: Re: bug#4547: emacs 23.1: very large font
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:08:39 -0500
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Changes to the development version of Emacs ought to have made this
issue go away. Please reopen this if there are still problems.

Subject: a bug: emacs 23.1: very large font
From: Daniel Novotny <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:58:56 -0400 (EDT)

Hello,

we upgraded Emacs in Fedora 11 and 12 to 23.1, but users start complaining,
that the font is too large.

this is a screenshot from cleanly installed Fedora 12 Alpha, showing
the default font:

http://people.fedoraproject.org/~dnovotny/emacs-fonts-large.jpg

do you know, what can be done to obtain the same
font size as before? This is a screenshot from Fedora 10:

http://people.fedoraproject.org/~dnovotny/emacs-fonts-normal.jpg

the bug report implies that the problem here is that emacs is scaling the requested font size according to
the display resolution reported by Xorg. These are accurate for the dimensions of the screen, but that
doesn't mean emacs should use them to change the font sizes the user requested:
see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517272#c3

thank you for your ideas,

  Daniel Novotny, Red Hat inc.