bug#15216: 24.3.50; Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

bug#15216: 24.3.50; Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

Hi,

I tried gtk3 Emacs for the first time and found this behavior.
Say, I have only this line in the .emacs file, it doesn't achieve
its purpose:

(setq default-frame-alist '((width . 40) (height . 20)))

The Emacs frame once goes small but expands again.  Then I tried
making it run after splashing the screen.  These two advices make
no difference:

(defadvice command-line-1 (after set-frame-size activate)
  "Set the frame size after splashing the screen."
  (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 40) (height . 20))))

(defadvice command-line-1 (after set-frame-size activate)
  "Set the frame size after splashing the screen."
  (modify-frame-parameters nil '((width . 40) (height . 20))))

But this works:

(defadvice command-line-1 (after set-frame-size activate)
  "Set the frame size after splashing the screen."
  (modify-frame-parameters nil '((width . 40) (height . 20)))
  (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 40) (height . 20))))

In relation to this, changing the default font in the .emacs
file makes the splash image disappear.  Here it is:

(set-face-font
 'default
 "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1")

This can be solved by a similar workaround like the following:

(defadvice command-line-1 (after set-default-font activate)
  "Set the default font after splashing the screen."
  (set-face-font
   'default
   "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"))

I think those workarounds should be unnecessary because of
`frame-notice-user-settings'.

Thanks.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version 3.8.2)
 of 2013-08-30 on localhost
Bzr revision: 114075 monnier@iro.umontreal.ca-20130829210018-w5kvrixpf2k1yjcv
Windowing system distributor `The Cygwin/X Project', version 11.0.11402000
Configured using:
 `configure --verbose --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-imagemagick
 --without-dbus --without-gconf --without-gsettings'

bug#15216: 24.3.50; Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:48:09 +0900
> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
> 
> Say, I have only this line in the .emacs file, it doesn't achieve
> its purpose:
> 
> (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 40) (height . 20)))
> 
> The Emacs frame once goes small but expands again.

Did you try the same with initial-frame-alist, instead of
default-frame-alist?

bug#15216: 24.3.50; Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:48:09 +0900
>> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>

>> Say, I have only this line in the .emacs file, it doesn't achieve
>> its purpose:

>> (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 40) (height . 20)))

>> The Emacs frame once goes small but expands again.

> Did you try the same with initial-frame-alist, instead of
> default-frame-alist?

Yes, I did.  Emacs frame contracted and expanded.

bug#15216: 24.3.50; Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:03:01 +0900
> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
> Cc: 15216@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:48:09 +0900
> >> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
> 
> >> Say, I have only this line in the .emacs file, it doesn't achieve
> >> its purpose:
> 
> >> (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 40) (height . 20)))
> 
> >> The Emacs frame once goes small but expands again.
> 
> > Did you try the same with initial-frame-alist, instead of
> > default-frame-alist?
> 
> Yes, I did.  Emacs frame contracted and expanded.

Well, this works for me, so it might indeed be GTK-specific.

bug#15216: 24.3.50; Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

> I tried gtk3 Emacs for the first time and found this behavior.
> Say, I have only this line in the .emacs file, it doesn't achieve
> its purpose:

> (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 40) (height . 20)))

> The Emacs frame once goes small but expands again.

That's the "canonical" way, so it should work.  IOW we have a bug.


        Stefan

bug#15216: 24.3.50; Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> I tried gtk3 Emacs for the first time and found this behavior.
>> Say, I have only this line in the .emacs file, it doesn't achieve
>> its purpose:

>> (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 40) (height . 20)))

>> The Emacs frame once goes small but expands again.

> That's the "canonical" way, so it should work.  IOW we have a bug.

Sorry, this might be a problem that occurs only on Cygwin.
I just tested it on Fedora 18 right now, it works as expected.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4)
 of 2013-08-30 on localhost.localdomain
Bzr revision: 114076 dmantipov@yandex.ru-20130830121744-dzilf27l8pb3997i
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.11303000

bug#15216: 24.3.50; Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

[Jan Djärv]

Hi. 

It could also be the window manager that remembers the old size. 

     Jan D. 

30 aug 2013 kl. 14:48 skrev Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:

>> I tried gtk3 Emacs for the first time and found this behavior.
>> Say, I have only this line in the .emacs file, it doesn't achieve
>> its purpose:
> 
>> (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 40) (height . 20)))
> 
>> The Emacs frame once goes small but expands again.
> 
> That's the "canonical" way, so it should work.  IOW we have a bug.
> 
> 
>        Stefan
> 
> 

bug#15216: 24.3.50; Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

[Angelo Graziosi]

Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> Sorry, this might be a problem that occurs only on Cygwin.
> I just tested it on Fedora 18 right now, it works as expected.

Yes, I concord.. see also this:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-08/msg00386.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-08/msg00390.html
...

Ciao,
  Angelo.

bug#15216: cygwin: Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> Sorry, this might be a problem that occurs only on Cygwin.
> I just tested it on Fedora 18 right now, it works as expected.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

Are you still seeing this issue in more recent versions of
Emacs/Cygwin/gtk3?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

bug#15216: cygwin: Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2022 00:36:17 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Are you still seeing this issue in more recent versions of
> Emacs/Cygwin/gtk3?

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:48:09 +0900, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> Say, I have only this line in the .emacs file, it doesn't achieve
> its purpose:

> (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 40) (height . 20)))

> The Emacs frame once goes small but expands again.

There's no such a problem is in Emacs/Cygwin/gtk3 now.  It should
have been fixed.  Thanks.

bug#15216: cygwin: Can't modify initial frame appearance on gtk3 Emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> There's no such a problem is in Emacs/Cygwin/gtk3 now.  It should
> have been fixed.  Thanks.

Thanks for checking; I'm closing this bug report, then.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no