From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: henry atting Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and awesome Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:42:08 +0200 Organization: literaturlatenight Message-ID: <87fx3f2n8v.fsf@online.de> References: <87pr2lf1m2.fsf@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273001987 23044 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 19:39:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 19:39:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 21:39:46 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Ny5-0006qC-Cl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 21:39:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Ny4-0004Mx-L8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 15:39:44 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 54 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-094-222-019-167.pools.arcor-ip.net Original-X-Trace: online.de 1270136456 22773 94.222.19.167 (1 Apr 2010 15:40:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 15:40:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lAncBCvIwYW8b9D8jUlaV1XSP7Y= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177624 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73100 Archived-At: On Mi, Mär 31 2010, despen@verizon.net wrote: > henry atting 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 -- http://literaturlatenight.de