Font size and powerline separator are wrong when starting GUI frame from daemon

[apaleslimghost]

Left is started from daemon, right is standalone. The issue still occurs on develop. I realise several similar issues (#299, #1894, #2652) have been raised, but I'd thought they were all resolved 😕

System Info

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 24.5.1
• Spacemacs: 0.105.9
• Spacemacs branch: nil (rev. 5fab8e8)
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(emacs-lisp osx syntax-checking vinegar javascript version-control php shell-scripts html themes-megapack
            (auto-completion :variables auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip t auto-completion-enable-sort-by-usage t)
            quarterto react markdown
            (shell :variables shell-default-shell 'ansi-term shell-default-term-shell "/usr/local/bin/zsh"))

Edit: if it helps, here is my .spacemacs. My configuration layer is also in that repo.

[TheBB]

I can't see this screenshot.

[apaleslimghost]

Apologies, reuploaded

[StreakyCobra]

Fastly error: unknown domain: butt.githubusercontent.com. Please check that this domain has been added to a service.

Refreshed the page again and it works now.

[TheBB]

https://github.com/quarterto/.spacemacs.d/blob/master/.spacemacs#L225

You have to do this after the GUI frame is created, not before.

(spacemacs|do-after-display-system-init
  (setq powerline-default-separator 'slant))

[apaleslimghost]

What about the font size?

[TheBB]

I don't know…

[apaleslimghost]

Quick update: I tried spacemacs/set-default-font in spacemacs|do-after-display-system-init and it had no effect.

[spijet]

It seems that the only way for now is to start Spacemacs with emacsclient -c -a "". Just checked it, powerline separators get re-set to default ones after frame is created.

[shuokay]

I incidentally find a way to solve this problem when trying to find a way to use the solaried theme, I record here in case someone need.

1. Disable the spacemacs themes-megapack by removing it from dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
2. Add color-theme-solarized to dotspacemacs-additional-packages
3. add the following lines to dotspacemacs/user-config ()

(set-terminal-parameter nil 'background-mode 'dark)  
(set-frame-parameter nil 'background-mode 'dark)   
(spacemacs/load-theme 'solarized)  

I think this problem is caused by the themes-megapack,
but I didn't confirm it.

[jcf]

To fix the font size issue I added the following snippet to my dotspacemacs/user-init function:

(setq default-frame-alist '((font . "Source Code Pro-14")))

http://superuser.com/questions/721634/different-font-size-when-running-emacs-and-emacsclient

Update: To make sure I don't trample other frame configuration, like presence of scrollbars, I'm using the following function to set the font:

(defun jcf/set-frame-font (s)
  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist `(font . ,s)))

HTH.

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[panicbit]

Still valid.

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