From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Determining desktop size? Date: 19 Mar 2005 10:26:48 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1111256808.238868.298370@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <1111013744.234400.148600@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111256894 32569 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2005 18:28:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:28:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 19:28:13 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCig9-0001g5-5k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:28:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCiwt-0004x2-09 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:45:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.81.115.196 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1111256813 21060 127.0.0.1 (19 Mar 2005 18:26:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:26:53 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.81.115.196; posting-account=SN40OAwAAABM_rISntbjsmd9hGuJXrzP Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129427 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24982 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24982 David Kastrup wrote: > "John" writes: > > > David Kastrup wrote: > >> PT writes: > >> > >> > Not the size of the emacs frame, the size of the whole graphical > >> > desktop. Is it possible from elisp? > >> > >> C-h f display-pixel-height RET > >> C-h f display-pixel-width RET > >> > >> -- > >> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum > > > > This function proves to be not "the size of the whole graphical > > desktop" but instead "the size of the desktop when emacs started"! > > > > At least as tested on emacs 21.1 running on Windows XP. When I resize > > the display during a run of emacs, later evaluations of > > (display-pixel-width) return the earlier value, not the present size of > > the display. > > File a bug report. > I did that a couple days ago (at least I followed the emacs instructions). But I have not seen any sign of the report on gnu.emacs.bug. Is absense of the report on g.e.b. evidence that my attempt failed? Or is the process *supposed* to run "open loop"? John