Re: 23.0.60; Odd behavior of maximized windows

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

on Sun Mar 30 2008, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d-AT-swipnet.se> wrote:

> David Abrahams skrev:
>> Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
>> usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
>> 
>> Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list.
>> 
>> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
>> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>> 
>> I am using Emacs 21 under Gnome with Compiz.  Occasionally, Compiz or
>> Emerald will freak out and I'll lose all my "window decorations" (title
>> bars, etc.)  I don't know what causes it.  I typically keep one or more
>> maximized emacs windows open.  With any other application I use, all I
>> need to do to get the decorations back is to restart my window manager
>> (it's not an X restart).  For some reason, the emacs window remains
>> maximized (the area, sans decorations, fills an entire screen) and no
>> decorations come back.  The emacs window actually even obscures the
>> gnome panels!  This persistent annoyance would obviously not be much of
>> a problem if it weren't for a bug somewhere else, but it is an odd
>> nonuniformity.  It would be best if emacs worked like all my other X
>> applications in that respect.
>> 
>
> I also run Emerald, Gnome, Compiz and alse see Emerald crashes.  I don't have
> maximized Emacs:es.  But I see that sometimes compiz maximizes windows by
> itself when the become "too large" (exactly what that means I don't know).
>
> Do you have other maximized windows that don't cover the entire screen after a
> restart?  

Yes.

> Window manager decorations is really up to the window manager, Emacs
> doesn't do anything about this by itself.

I figured as much, but it must be doing something differently from,
e.g., Thunderbird, or I wouldn't be seeing this effect.

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Dave Abrahams
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