** Description changed:
Binary package hint: emacs23
- Since the latest emacs upgrade in Karmic, the default font is now huge.
- The Set Default Font dialog claims the font is DejaVu Sans Mono Book 12,
- and in the preview, capital letters indeed are 12 pixels high. However,
- in the editor, capital letters are 14 pixels high and look bold. For
- comparison, capitals in the menu bar are the normal 10 pixels.
+ Emacs 23.1 does not detect the system font resolution properly, which
+ leads to ridiculously huge fonts when using "smaller" font resolutions.
+
+ Steps to reproduce:
+ - in System -> Appearance -> Fonts -> Details -> Set resolution to less than
72dpi
+ - Start Emacs without config: "emacs -Q"
+
+ In default configuration, Emacs will use "Monospace 12" as text font
+
+ - open a gedit instance and set the font to "Monospace 12" as well.
+
+ At higher resolutions (~92dpi) there won't be nearly no noticable
+ difference. At lower resultions (~72), the emacs font is pretty large
+ compared to the gedit reference.
+
+ Alternative steps to reproduce:
+
+ - Start emacs one time with 72dpi and note that the font doesn't change
+ when emacs is started with a resolution of 92dpi.
+
+ The fact that emacs doesn't change its font when the system resultion is
+ changed while emacs is running may or may not be a seperate bug.
+
+
+ Original Report follows:
+ Since the latest emacs upgrade in Karmic, the default font is now huge. The
Set Default Font dialog claims the font is DejaVu Sans Mono Book 12, and in the
preview, capital letters indeed are 12 pixels high. However, in the editor,
capital letters are 14 pixels high and look bold. For comparison, capitals in
the menu bar are the normal 10 pixels.
To get a sane editor font, I need to set the size to 8, resulting in 9
pixels - I cannot get the height of 10 pixels, as sizes like 8.5 result
in the error "Font not available". xdpyinfo reports 118x119 dots per
inch, and Gnome font settings are at font size 10, 96 dpi, subpixels, a
little hinting.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 7 15:21:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: emacs 23.1+1-4ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
- SHELL=/bin/bash
- PATH=(custom, user)
- LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
+ SHELL=/bin/bash
+ PATH=(custom, user)
+ LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.39-generic
SourcePackage: emacs23
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686
** Changed in: emacs23 (Ubuntu Lucid)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Reinhard Tartler (siretart)
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emacs default font is huge
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