Emacs: change fonts dynamically based on screen resolution

Emacs: Change Fonts Dynamically Based on Screen Resolution

Sunday, September the 23rd, 2012 | Comments

I regularly switch between a Thunderbolt display at home and the Mac’s native retina display when I’m in a coffee shop or the like.

It bugs me that I have to adjust emac’s font manually when I switch displays – started “re-using” emacs again last week. So I automated this today:

;; Gist-ed from in https://github.com/arnab/emacs-starter-kit (defun fontify-frame (frame) (interactive) (if window-system (progn (if (> (x-display-pixel-width) 2000) (set-frame-parameter frame 'font "Inconsolata 19") ;; Cinema Display (set-frame-parameter frame 'font "Inconsolata 16"))))) ;; Fontify current frame (fontify-frame nil) ;; Fontify any future frames (push 'fontify-frame after-make-frame-functions)

You can see all my emacs customizations in Github arnab/emacs-starter-kit repo, which is based on the excellent ESK v2.

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Emacs: Change Fonts Dynamically Based on Screen Resolution