[xmonad] Emacs doesn't redraw screen after resizing font

[Jim Burton]

At Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:20:53 -0400,
Tracy Wadleigh wrote:
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> [1  <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>]
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> [2  <text/html; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>]
> I had the same problem and solved it by putting:
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> Emacs*Font: Monospace-15
>

Thanks! I can't believe I didn't try that. I thought that setting the
font directly would lose the fontset/family behaviour, picking
different fonts for unicode etc., but I see that it doesn't.

Jim 

> in .Xdefaults, and not bothering with a font tweak in .emacs.
> 
> I seem to recall that putting the same in .Xresources didn't cut it.
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> --Tracy
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