display-pixel-height not working as advertized

display-pixel-height not working as advertized

[John Wiegley]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-03-22 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-gif'
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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

(display-pixel-height "some.host.com:0.0") should return the X display
height in pixels.  Instead, it always returns my own display's height
in characters!

This seems to be because (framep-on-display "some.host.com:0") always
returns nil.

(x-display-pixel-height "some.host.com:0.0") returns what I expect.

John

Re: display-pixel-height not working as advertized

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, John Wiegley wrote:

> (display-pixel-height "some.host.com:0.0") should return the X display
> height in pixels.  Instead, it always returns my own display's height
> in characters!
> 
> This seems to be because (framep-on-display "some.host.com:0") always
> returns nil.

Thanks.  Could you please step through frame-on-display and its 
subroutines, and see why does it return nil?