Re: emacs and awesome

[henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de>]

On Mi, Mär 31 2010, despen@verizon.net wrote:

> henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> writes:
>
>>  Some time ago I used awesome as my window manager but then switched to
>>  xmonad for I wanted not to deal with lua. Now I gave awesome another
>>  try and as everything works fine `out of the box` I maybe replace
>>  xmonad with awesome again. 
>>  
>>  I know some people in this group use awesome as well so I put my
>>  question here (I found the awesome community too elite for someone
>>  like me, unwilling to learn lua)
>>
>>  Okay, when I set emacs to fullscreen, at the bottom of the screen
>>  always remains a small gap. No other programm shows this behaviour,
>>  so maybe it's an emacs problem.
>>  
>>  There is an option, `c.honorsizehints = true', but this does not
>>  change anything. AFAIK it only handles the gap *between* windows.
>>
>>  I'm thankful for any hint.
>
> Hint is the right word.
> Use the xprop command to take a look at the size hints on an Emacs
> window, here are mine:
>
> WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
>                 program specified minimum size: 40 by 40
>                 program specified resize increment: 10 by 20
>                 program specified base size: 20 by 0
>                 window gravity: NorthWest
>
>
> So, Emacs is telling the window manager that when Emacs is resized,
> it wants to be resized in multiples of 10x20 pixels.
>
> Hence the gap you see.
>
> If the WM supports what you want, it would be more like
> honorsizehints=false.

Yes, it's `false`

The method to do this has changed since I used awesome the last time;
for anyone who runs into the same problem, see here:

http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/FAQ#How_to_remove_gaps_between_windows.3F

thanks!;

henry

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