When I run the build of current trunk, rev. 99386, Emacs starts with a
window of 19 lines instead of 35, as it did until the last build, on
2010.01.20.
This happens on GNU/Linux Kubuntu 9.10 with the following .Xdefaults:
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Emacs.FontBackend: xft
Emacs.font: Monospace 13
Emacs.geometry: -0+0
! ---------[ xft ] ---------
Xft*antialias: true
Xft*autohint: true
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In the above, the line which causes this 'half window' is:
Emacs.font: Monospace 13
Removing it, Emacs starts with a 'full' window of 38 lines, but with
Monospace 12 and not 13, as I would. Setting '13', manually, with
'Options | Set Default Font' still have 38 lines.