On Jan 18, 2014, at 04:07, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:

> Meanwhile please do the following: Evaluate the two functions attached
> at the bottom (with Emacs 24.4 only) and do
> 
> (1) M-x frame-dump _before_ balancing windows and post the result (from
>    the buffer *frame-dump*) here.
> 
> (2) M-x frame-dump _after_ balancing windows and post the result (from
>    the buffer *frame-dump*) here.

Results attached. Thanks for looking into this!