Hi,

I have been using a hack to deal with this bug for over a year now. I
believe I am seeing this problem ever since I starting understanding more
and more of elisp, around emacs 24.3.

Problem:
- I save the frame width using `frame-pixel-width' to a defvar.
- I then set the frame size using `set-frame-size' with that defvar as one
of the args
- I notice that the frame had got wider! When I do a readback using
`frame-pixel-width', it is exactly 16 pixels wider than expected.

I have seen this problem on emacsen built earlier on RHEL 5 and now on RHEL
6 too.

Evaluate the below code in the scratch buffer in an emacs -Q session. Then
when you keep on hitting F2, you will see that the frame keeps on getting
wider.

Now if you uncomment the line with the "<-- HACK" comment, reeval the code
and then keep on hitting F2, the frame width will stay the same (which was
the end goal of the below code).



(defvar bkp--frame-height-px nil)
(defvar bkp--frame-width-px nil)

(defun modi/toggle-menu-bar ()
  "Toggle the menu bar.
Also restore the original frame size when disabling the menu bar."
  (interactive)
  (let ((frame-resize-pixelwise t))
    ;; If the menu bar is hidden currently, take a backup of the frame
height.
    (when (null menu-bar-mode)
      (setq bkp--frame-height-px (frame-pixel-height))
      (setq bkp--frame-width-px  (frame-pixel-width))

      ;; ;; `frame-pixel-width' is returning a value higher by 16 pixels
compared
      ;; ;; to that set using `set-frame-size'. So the below adjustment has
to be made.
      ;; (setq bkp--frame-width-px  (- (frame-pixel-width) 16))) ; <-- HACK

    (menu-bar-mode 'toggle)
    ;; Restore frame size if menu bar is hidden after toggle
    (when (null menu-bar-mode)
      (set-frame-size nil bkp--frame-width-px bkp--frame-height-px
:pixelwise))))

(global-set-key (kbd "<f2>") #'modi/toggle-menu-bar)



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Kaushal Modi