Re: Odd problem with window geometry

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>]

On Sun, Dec 01 2024, Al Eisner wrote:
> I have had a consistent problem in starting up emacs on a Rocky 9 Linux
> platform.  (I have no control over the machine, but it appears to be
> using emacs-27.2.)  If I specify window size (with either -g or --geometry)
> on the command line, I first see a window of appropriate size (which
> changes when I change the values), but then as initialization completes
> it collapses to a window with only 3 or 4 lines; there is also a small
> change in width.  This happens whether or not I have a .emacs file.  (I
> have no other initializtion file.)  I have longed used emacs on both
> Redhat=6 Linix and Linux OS-7, with no such problem, but I think the
> emacs version there was 25.  In case it matters, I use XMing as my X
> server, but that is unchanged from my usage on the other platforms.
>
> Does this behavior ring a bell with anyone?  I must be missing something.
> Thanks.

There was a problem similar to this with Emacs 28, I think, maybe also with
29. I actually ran into it myself, and I remember finding the solution, but
I don't remember the details... If I'm not mistaken, it was something about
the toolkit being used in combination with the windowing system. Could be a
Wayland version of Emacs on X, or the other way around, I don't remember...

FWIW, I'm running Emacs 29 compiled with PGTK on Gnome+Wayland, and the
issue does not occur anymore.

There is some discussion at
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/77667/emacs-starts-in-extremely-tiny-window
and https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=67654, including some
suggestions for work-arounds.

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Joost Kremers
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