Description: The global-mode-string is incorrectly right-aligned in the tab-bar when global-display-line-numbers-mode is enabled. The issue actually depends on the order of execution of global-display-line-numbers-mode. I could not find an offending commit, so I am not sure for how long this issue exists. I am currently debugging the Emacs internals to find the root cause. Steps: 1) emacs -Q (master 690f7ac86ad9a9d714b1107d05c5e856a43bb18d) 2) Eval the following to enable global-display-line-numbers-mode: (progn (global-display-line-numbers-mode 1)) 3) Eval the following to enable display-time-mode, which at this moment will be displayed in the mode-line: (progn (setopt display-time-interval 1 display-time-string-forms '((format-time-string "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S" now))) (display-time-mode 1)) 4) Eval the following to add global-mode-line to tab-bar, right-aligned: (progn (setopt tab-bar-format '(tab-bar-format-tabs-groups tab-bar-separator tab-bar-format-align-right tab-bar-format-global)) (tab-bar-mode 1)) Result: the global-mode-line is displayed in the tab-bar, right-aligned, as expected. 5) Run step 2) again Result: the global-mode-line is displayed in the tab-bar, right-aligned, with an incorrect padding on the right. See attached video.