make-frame does not set the right font size

Question

If I open up a new frame in emacs (v24.3.1), the font is set to a different size. All other settings are correct but the fontsize. (On the screenshot, the window in the back opens up a new frame with make-frame, the window in the front is the new window, with the wrong font size.

In my init.el, I have the following code:

 (set-face-font 'default "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1")

Answer 1

Check your init file (and any code it loads) for something that changes default-frame-alist, specifically with respect to parameter font or font-parameter. Check the definition of face default.

You can customize option default-frame-alist or face default, to control this. (But you still might want to figure out what code you are using already changes this.)

 M-x customize-face default
 M-x customize-option default-frame-alist

Always, for something like this, please report whether the behavior you observe happens also when you start from emacs -Q, that is, without your init file.

If it does not, then recursively bisect your init file (by commenting-out 1/2, then 3/4, then 7/8,... until you find the culprit code that is causing the problem. This is a binary search, so it is very quick (though it does not seem so at the outset).

(Your screenshot indicates that you have Projectile loaded, for example. We cannot help you debug something if it is just a giant sack of stuff, all or most of which is unknown to us. You need to narrow things down, to identify what is causing the problem - by bisecting your init file.)