From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Norman Ramsey <nr@cs.tufts.edu>
Cc: 33686@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33686: 25.1; desktop-mode restore, issue with frame size
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:37:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2h8fmz5qc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83va423bqv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 09 Dec 2018 18:28:56 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Norman Ramsey <nr@cs.tufts.edu>
>> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 10:59:04 -0500
>>
>>
>> I'm using (desktop-save-mode 1) to save a session which I then reload,
>> but logging in remotely from a different machine with a different
>> resolution display. Something stored in the desktop winds up setting
>> frame width to 150 characters rather than the 87 characters it was saved
>> with. Height seems unaffected.
>>
>> In detail:
>>
>> - Start emacs on machine `homedog` with one monitor, resolution
>> 3840x2160.
>> - Exit emacs, writing .desktop file.
>> - Remote login to `homedog` from machine `jar`, using `ssh -X` to
>> forward the X server connection. Machine `jar` has one monitor,
>> resolution 1920x1200.
>> - Start emacs on homedog, but with DISPLAY environment variable set to
>> `localhost:10.0`, which is the forwarded X connection.
>>
>> When the dust settles after initialization, the emacs frame seems to be
>> about the right height, but it is much wider than it should be.
>
> Do you also have any init files? If so, please empty them and try
> again. It's important to understand whether the problem is with
> desktop-save-mode alone, or some of your other customizations
> interfere.
I suspect there is scaling going on on 'homedog', which means that you
need to use a version of emacs that has commit
2892f05792e1f52b0966f92c5ed1aa75dcdd66a3, which fixed things so that
frameset-restore (which is used by desktop) correctly calculates frame
sizes.
In short: can you try emacs-26?
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-09 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-09 15:59 bug#33686: 25.1; desktop-mode restore, issue with frame size Norman Ramsey
2018-12-09 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-09 22:37 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2018-12-22 21:34 ` Norman Ramsey
2019-06-21 13:53 ` bug#33686: close this bug Norman Ramsey
2019-06-21 14:16 ` Noam Postavsky
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