Re: Huge gap between fringe and scroll-bar

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Leo wrote:
> * Jan Djärv (2007-01-01 13:46 +0100) said:
>   ^^^^^^^^^
>> Leo skrev:
>>> Emacs's native scroll-bar (--without-toolkit-scroll-bars) can have a
>>> huge gap between fringe and scroll-bar. To see this:
>>>
>>>   emacs -Q -l sb.el
>>>
>>> Where sb.el has:
>>> ,----[ sb.el ]
>>> | (setq initial-frame-alist
>>> |       '((scroll-bar-width . 10)))
>>> `----
>>>
>>> As you can see the gap between the fringe and scroll-bar is close to
>>> 8 pixels. I see no gap for gtk scroll-bar though.
>> The scroll bar width for the scroll bars are constrained to be equal
>> to an even character width.  So if you say scroll bar width 10, it
>> is padded to an even character width.  The GTK scroll bar is also
>> padded, but it divides the padding evenly at the left and right side
>> of the scroll bar.  You can clearly see this if you run Emacs with a
>> different background, like
>>
>> % emacs -bg gray50 -Q -xrm 'Emacs.scrollBarWidth: 10'
>>
>> and then change the character size to different sizes (use the font
>> menu at Shift-Mouse-1 for example).
> 
> I see now.
> 
> Before this post I did a search in Emacs info and can not find the
> answer not even scrollBarWidth. Is there a complete list of X resource
> options hidden somewhere?

No, it seems to be missing from the manual.  I'll add it.

> 
> Also is there any reason to make the width of scroll-bar take up even
> character width? Because the gap is not pretty and very noticeable.
> 

It is easier to resize the frame that way in terms of whole character widths. 
  I think that is one of the things we said we should look into after the release.

	Jan D.