bug#4262: 23.1 creates a very large initial frame in fvwm

bug#4262: 23.1 creates a very large initial frame in fvwm

[Glenn Morris]

I don't normally use fvwm, but this problem was pointed out to me.

This is on a RHEL5 system, using FVWM 2.4.20. It applies to both 23.1
and the current trunk, when built with the gtk toolkit. It does not
happen with the lucid toolkit. A gtk Emacs 22.3 does not have this issue.

The symptoms are that

emacs -Q

opens a very big initial frame, _much_ wider and taller than the size
of the desktop. After this, M-x make-frame creates normal-sized frames.

Using something like

emacs -Q -geometry 20x10

does not help. It looks as if the initial frame is very briefly at the
correct size, but then jumps to the much larger size. 22.3, or 23.1
with the lucid toolkit, do respect the geometry option.

bug#4262: 23.1 creates a very large initial frame in fvwm

[Jan Djärv]

Glenn Morris skrev:
> I don't normally use fvwm, but this problem was pointed out to me.
> 
> This is on a RHEL5 system, using FVWM 2.4.20. It applies to both 23.1
> and the current trunk, when built with the gtk toolkit. It does not
> happen with the lucid toolkit. A gtk Emacs 22.3 does not have this issue.
> 
> The symptoms are that
> 
> emacs -Q
> 
> opens a very big initial frame, _much_ wider and taller than the size
> of the desktop. After this, M-x make-frame creates normal-sized frames.
> 
> Using something like
> 
> emacs -Q -geometry 20x10
> 
> does not help. It looks as if the initial frame is very briefly at the
> correct size, but then jumps to the much larger size. 22.3, or 23.1
> with the lucid toolkit, do respect the geometry option.

I only have Fvwm 2.5 on Ubuntu, where there is no problem.
Can you debug this at your end if I send you a debug-patch?

	Jan D.

bug#4262: 23.1 creates a very large initial frame in fvwm

[Glenn Morris]

Jan Djärv wrote:

> I only have Fvwm 2.5 on Ubuntu, where there is no problem.
> Can you debug this at your end if I send you a debug-patch?

I'll certainly give it a try.

BTW this sounds similar:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emacs/browse_thread/thread/215d350197511963#

bug#4262: marked as done (23.1 creates a very large initial frame in fvwm)

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: 23.1 creates a very large initial frame in fvwm
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:32:14 -0400
Message-ID: <u9d46j2tld.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>


I don't normally use fvwm, but this problem was pointed out to me.

This is on a RHEL5 system, using FVWM 2.4.20. It applies to both 23.1
and the current trunk, when built with the gtk toolkit. It does not
happen with the lucid toolkit. A gtk Emacs 22.3 does not have this issue.

The symptoms are that

emacs -Q

opens a very big initial frame, _much_ wider and taller than the size
of the desktop. After this, M-x make-frame creates normal-sized frames.

Using something like

emacs -Q -geometry 20x10

does not help. It looks as if the initial frame is very briefly at the
correct size, but then jumps to the much larger size. 22.3, or 23.1
with the lucid toolkit, do respect the geometry option.



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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: 4262-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: bug#4262: 23.1 creates a very large initial frame in fvwm
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 20:58:42 -0400
Message-ID: <19104.26178.459853.197295@fencepost.gnu.org>


Jan Djärv wrote (on Thu, 3 Sep 2009 at 18:30 +0200):

> I've attached a dropin replacement gtkutil.c for the trunk. It
> contains debug output.

So it turns out that this was already fixed in the trunk, by something
in your changes from the start of July. I don't know what I was doing
before when I said that both 23.1 and the trunk had this problem,
sigh.

Sorry for wasting your time.