martin rudalics writes: > ... you never get an initial scroll bar, it would be indeed hard to > check that. IIRC running Emacs from a console logs GTK errors in the > console output. Can you try that? Also could you send us screenshots > of your initial scroll-bar-less frame and the one where a scroll bar is > halfway visible somewhere in a window. From a console or from an xterm? From an xterm I get nothing output at all. Initial frame: