Hi Christian! Thank you for this tip but I’m afraid it does not work for me. I executed the commands you suggested and they worked without printing any error (at first they did because of a typo of mine). The result is that my Emacs window now starts up quite small in the middle of the screen and the is almost (before the actual content is drawn) resized to a bigger size. But this also makes it appear not centered but rather asymmetrical somewhat left of the center of the screen. Perhaps I’ll try my luck on the Emacs help mailing list in a few days or so. Edgar Am oder ungefähr am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2009, um 16:34:25 schrieb Christian Himpel:
Hi,
as a workaround, until someone comes up with a nice lisp solution, you can set the font for emacs in your ~/.Xresources (or whatever you call it).
For example:
$ cat >> .Xresources << EOF Emacs*font: Terminus 10 EOF $ xrdb -merge .Xresources
At least it works for me (and my tiling wm).
Regards, chressie