Robert van der Kamp writes: Please don't. Much of the time I just drop such messages on the floor. The ones I answer I redirect to the mailing list, as in this case. (Bcc'd to protect your anonymity in this age of spam.) If you consider it large, you may have the X resource Xft.dpi set too large for your monitor, either in your environment or in one of your fontconfig fonts.conf files. Since this is a global setting for all Xft applications (including GTK and GNOME), it will probably mess up any other application settings you've already tweaked. It might be worth enduring the pain to get that set right, as you may be able to use default sizes of new applications as you install them. But that's something you have to judge for yourself. For menubar and tab fonts, did you run xrdb < .Xdefaults or restart the X server, then restart XEmacs? Does that help? If not, please post your actual settings. For the buffer fonts, use set-face-font. You can do this both as an interactive command and in init.el. M-X customize-face doesn't know about fontconfig yet, though. I haven't even tried to use that. Some hacking was done on the menus, but they don't work properly yet, most fonts and sizes can't be set through them. Yes. AFAICT when antialiasing Xft draws outside of its reported bounding box. The obvious strategy of clearing one pixel more than you need to turns out to trash the next line down, and the other obvious strategy of increasing the height of the font to compensate results in bad vertical spacing. I've seen the artifacts resulting from clearing too much in other applications like Firefox, but I prefer bugs that hit you right between the eyes. In the XEmacs I'm typing this on, I see no such artifacts at all, using the font spec "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-18:dpi=100" at a resolution of 1920x1440. (This is a hack; my monitor actually has a resolution of more like 130dpi, but the X server detects it or is set to 75dpi, and I haven't gotten around to coordinating the defaults of all my apps yet.) HTH _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta