I have tested this with the current master/trunk version and the problem
no longer occurs.

Emacs opens full screen and correctly dimensioned to the display size.

tested on commit 16d91bce1d054c45ccd60efd5bd3ff88c12e39bb

Thanks,

Jason

martin rudalics wrote on 14/02/2015 5:30 AM:
>> Starting emacs in full screen, it is too large for the display and so
>> you can't see the status bar or minibuffer, they are hanging off the
>> bottom of the display.
>
> Can you please try with current master/trunk.  I fixed a couple of
> related issues there recently.
>
> Thanks, martin
>

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