From: Steve Revilak <steve@srevilak.net>
To: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: 5308@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5308: 23.1.91; Geometry quirk on OpenSuSE 11.2
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:33:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100114003329.GP11941@srevilak.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4D7BA0.1040702@swipnet.se>
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>Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:52:00 +0100
>From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
>Subject: Re: bug#5308: 23.1.91; Geometry quirk on OpenSuSE 11.2
> I think your figure 2 is a proper bug. The rest is probably
> interactions with the window manager. I'll have to install your
> versions and check. It may take a while.
Thanks, Jan. If there's anything I can do to assist, please let me
know.
Steve
> On 2010-01-13 02:44, Steve Revilak wrote:
>> Jan,
>>
>> Thanks for responding. I'm sorry that you didn't get much useful
>> information from my initial report. Please let me try again, and I
>> will make an effort to be clearer this time.
>>
>> First, I'd like to provide you with some system information.
>>
>>
>> Operating System:
>>
>> (1:0)srevilak:~$ cat /etc/SuSE-release openSUSE 11.2 (i586)
>> VERSION = 11.2
>> (0:0)srevilak:~$ uname -a
>> Linux srevilak 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2009-10-26 15:49:03
>> +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>> Window Manager:
>>
>> (0:0)srevilak:~$ kde4-config --version
>> Qt: 4.5.3
>> KDE: 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1) "release 6"
>> kde4-config: 1.0
>>
>>
>> Contents of .Xresources (a single line, containing a comment):
>>
>> (0:0)srevilak:~$ cat .Xresources
>> ! .Xresources
>>
>>
>> Contents of .emacs (a single line, containing a comment):
>>
>> (0:0)srevilak:~$ cat .emacs
>> ; .emacs
>>
>> Finally, to be sure that ~/.Xresources agrees with our current
>> environment.
>>
>> (0:0)srevilak:~$ xrdb .Xresources
>>
>>
>>
>> First, I will start emacs with the command line
>>
>> /usr/local/emacs-23.1.91/bin/emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file
>> -geometry 86x44-0+0
>> figure-1.png shows a snapshot of my screen after starting emacs. As
>> you can see, emacs occupies most of the vertical space on the screen.
>>
>> Next, I will quit emacs, then run the following command line
>>
>> /usr/local/emacs-23.1.91/bin/emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file
>> -geometry 86x45-0+0
>>
>> Notice that I have increased the height from 44 to 45, which is just a
>> little too large to fit on the screen; the rest of the command line is
>> unchanged. The result of this appears in figure-2.png.
>>
>> Observe that figure-1.png and figure-2.png are quite different.
>>
>>
>> As you noted before, this could be the Window Manager's doing. For my
>> third (and final) snapshot, I would like to provide evidence which
>> suggests that it is not the window manager.
>>
>> /usr/bin/emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file -geometry 86x45-0+0
>>
>> Above, /usr/bin/emacs is emacs 23.1.1, as packaged with OpenSUSE 11.2
>> (you'll see this from emacs' splash screen). The result of running
>> this command appears in figure-3.png. As you can see, figure-3.png
>> resembles figure-1.png much more than figure-2.png.
>>
>>
>> The difference between figure-2.png and figure-3.png is the core of my
>> issue. Specifically,
>>
>> * When Emacs-23.1.1 is confronted with a geometry that is too large
>> for the height of the screen, then emacs-23.1.1 respects the
>> geometry as best as it can. In figure-3.png, we see that
>> Emacs-23.1.1 took up as much of the vertical screen space as was
>> possible.
>>
>> * When Emacs-23.1.91 is confronted with a geometry that is too large
>> for the height of the screen, then emacs-23.1.91 does not try to
>> respect the geometry as best as it can. As you can see from
>> figure-2.png, emacs-23.1.91 opted for a much smaller height. (In
>> figure-2.png, you can also see a very different appearance in the
>> splash screen itself.)
>>
>> In summary, I believe that the behavior shown in figure-3.png (produced by
>> emacs-23.1.1) is more correct than the behavior shown in figure-2.png
>> (produced by emacs-23.1.91).
>>
>> Please let me know if you'd like me to provide any additional details.
>>
>> Steve Revilak
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-14 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-04 1:25 bug#5308: 23.1.91; Geometry quirk on OpenSuSE 11.2 Steve Revilak
2010-01-12 13:22 ` Jan Djärv
[not found] ` <20100113014441.GA386@srevilak.net>
2010-01-13 7:52 ` Jan D.
2010-01-14 0:33 ` Steve Revilak [this message]
2010-02-11 20:35 ` Jan Djärv
2010-02-12 3:49 ` Steve Revilak
2019-11-02 5:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-04 1:16 ` Steve Revilak
2019-11-04 8:53 ` Stefan Kangas
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