emacs uses huge default font

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe]

Binary package hint: emacs-snapshot

Upgrading from Jaunty (where there was no problem) to Karmic (20090909-1) gives emacs a huge default font.

I expected this to be the same as in Jaunty, i.e. also the same as used by the default terminal. On an eeepc, space is premium, so this made emacs unusable.

[thiago.unicamp (thiago-unicamp)]

I have the same problem....
Huge fonts in emacs-snapshot after upgrading from Jaunty to Karmic
I'm using a 15.4¨ laptop but this made emacs unusable too.
Emacs expend much more time to initialize too.

This problem didn't affect the desktop I use in my work office.

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe (jeffreyratcliffe)]

Setting a smaller default font then left large portions of the screen
unused. This I then had to fix with

(set-frame-size (selected-frame) 110 29)

in my .emacs

Strangely, this is not strictly followed - it gives me 110x28 on
startup. If I do it again by hand afterwards, the frame size is
correctly set.

[Guendalf (johan-oudinet)]

I have the same problem on 10.10 when I first resize my screen before running emacs-snapshot. However, emacs23 works fine.
In https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs23/+bug/445402, it seems to be the same bug and it was fixed for emacs23. Maybe, it is enough to port this patch for emacs-snapshot?