From: Steve Revilak <steve@srevilak.net>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: 5308@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5308: 23.1.91; Geometry quirk on OpenSuSE 11.2
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:49:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100212034911.GA504@srevilak.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B746A2B.6000701@swipnet.se>
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Jan,
Thanks, I really appreciate your taking the time to investigate.
> I think there might be a bug in the window manager lurking in the background.
> It resizes Emacs a lot if Emacs is too big for the display.
> But if we set size hints at startup, this problem goes away.
>
> We used to do that, but the discussion starting at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-10/msg00033.html
> introduced a patch to not set wm hints at startup.
That's a very interesting thread. I never realized that the startup
process was so tricky.
> So it is basiacally the old startup problem again, but in a different form.
> I don't know if there is much we can do about this. I'll keep looking,
> but as this isn't something that makes Emacs unusable, it is a low
> priority.
Agreed. It's a minor issue, and emacs is quite usable despite it.
Steve
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-12 3:49 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
2010-02-11 20:35 ` Jan Djärv
2010-02-12 3:49 ` Steve Revilak [this message]
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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