Which-key popup too small in emacsclient

[abbec]

The popup for which-key renders too small in emacsclient while it works fine in emacs:

emacsclient left and emacs right.

[abbec]

Note that I can only reproduce this when running emacs as a daemon (not with server-start).

[justbur]

Is this both through the gui or is one the terminal?

[abbec]

Gui on both

[karthink]

I can confirm this. Emacs 27.2.

[adql]

A workaround: instead of just enabling the mode in init.el use

(if (daemonp)
    (add-hook 'server-after-make-frame-hook 'which-key-mode)
  (which-key-mode))

[andyhunne]

You can mitigate the issues with fonts when running Emacs as a daemon by creating a custom function to configure your fonts, then calling it with:

'after-init-hook
and
'server-after-make-frame-hook