Re: size hints and tiling window managers

[Giorgos Keramidas <gkeramidas@gmail.com>]

Στις 08/12/2012 10:01 πμ, ο/η Eli Zaretskii έγραψε:
 >> From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012
 >> 20:42:00 -0500 Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>, Jonas
 >> Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
 >>
 >> Emacs does the same thing: it paints the extra space using the
 >> background color of the default face.  The problem is that Emacs
 >> frames may also have fringes which usually don't have the same
 >> background color.  As a result Emacs draws a "line" with the same
 >> color as *the* background color to the right of the right fringe
 >> (and below the echo area).
 >
 > Can you show a screenshot of this?  Also, what would be a good
 > solution to this problem? make the right fringe wider? something
 > else?

FWIW, tiled windows may be slightly larger pixel-wise in at least two
directions: right *and* bottom.  So it may be useful to apply the same
solution to both the right fringe and the mode-line.