2009/6/10 Constantine Verutin
Well, I'm using emacs23 too(emacs-snapshot debian package, I believe it's the CVS snapshot), and this solution still works for me. So, just re-check if you're not changing any fonts in your ~/.emacs (Actually, the problem here is that if you re-define your fonts in ~/.emacs, then emacs will start with default(or defined in .Xresources/.Xdefaults) fonts and only then fonts will be changed to the ones defined in dot-emacs file and that drives emacs crazy in tiled WMs)
Again, first do not change any font settings in ~/.emacs, and then check if there will be any success
I'm not familiar with how Debian snapshot packages work, but to be completely sure that we are running the same version of Emacs, you really ought to make a manual checkout and build it yourself. I have now tried all of the suggestions and all possible combinations of solutions, but none of them seem to work. What *really* is bothering me though is that not even "emacs -Q" with a clean .Xdefaults works properly. Even then the width/height are off!
From this, I draw the conclusion that there is something fundamentally wrong in either XMonad or Emacs, and I'm kind of leaning towards believing it is the latter.
-- Deniz Dogan