Geometry ignored in Emacs 23.1.91 on OpenSUSE 11.2

Geometry ignored in Emacs 23.1.91 on OpenSUSE 11.2

[Steve Revilak]

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I've been trying out Emacs 23.1.91 on OpenSUSE 11.2.  Emacs' version
string is

   GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.1) of 2009-12-31

I've run into one problem that I can't seem to work around: emacs
doesn't seem to pay attention to certain elements on the geometry
specification.  For example

   emacs -Q --geometry 99x40-0-0

Creates a frame with a width of 99, but a height of 25 (not 40).  The
frame is positioned against the left edge of the screen, but the top
edge of the frame seems to be consistely positioned 225 pixels from
the top edge of the screen (and not -0).  It's almost as if

    --geometry WxH+X+Y

becomes translated to --geometry Wx25+X+225.

I've also observed this with 23.1.90, but not with the emacs-23.1.1
that comes with OpenSUSE 11.2.

When building emacs, --prefix= is the only argument I gave to
./configure.  Is there a ./configure option that I missed?

Steve


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Re: Geometry ignored in Emacs 23.1.91 on OpenSUSE 11.2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:24:20 -0500
> From: Steve Revilak <steve@srevilak.net>
> 
>    GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.1) of 2009-12-31
> 
> I've run into one problem that I can't seem to work around: emacs
> doesn't seem to pay attention to certain elements on the geometry
> specification.  For example
> 
>    emacs -Q --geometry 99x40-0-0
> 
> Creates a frame with a width of 99, but a height of 25 (not 40).

Does it work without -Q (and with an empty ~/.emacs file)?

The handling of -Q has changed in v23.2 (see NEWS), so perhaps this
bug is a side effect.

In any case, a proper way of reporting a bug in a pretest is with
"M-x report-emacs-bug RET".

Thanks.

Re: Geometry ignored in Emacs 23.1.91 on OpenSUSE 11.2

[Steve Revilak]

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>>    GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.1) of 2009-12-31
>> 
>> I've run into one problem that I can't seem to work around: emacs
>> doesn't seem to pay attention to certain elements on the geometry
>> specification.  For example
>> 
>>    emacs -Q --geometry 99x40-0-0
>> 
>> Creates a frame with a width of 99, but a height of 25 (not 40).

>Does it work without -Q (and with an empty ~/.emacs file)?
>
>The handling of -Q has changed in v23.2 (see NEWS), so perhaps this
>bug is a side effect.
>
>In any case, a proper way of reporting a bug in a pretest is with
>"M-x report-emacs-bug RET".

Eli,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll experiment with/without -Q.  If this
doesn't appear to be user error, then I will file a bug report.

Steve

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