Subject: Emacs window shrinks automatically

From: Walter Garcia-Fontes <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 09:52:04 +0100

Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1
Unity desktop environment

When starting Emacs without tool-bar and without menu-bar the windows
shrinks automatically to the size of one (text) line.

To reproduce, run current Unity desktop (5.4.0-0ubuntu2) and start
Emacs with the following command line:

emacs23 -Q --execute "(progn (tool-bar-mode 0)(menu-bar-mode 0))"

Note that both toolbar and menubar have to be disabled to see the
shrinking behavior.

FWIW, here's a video that illustrates the behavior: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKQjP8x_Os

In GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
 of 2012-02-23 on crested, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11103000
configured using `configure  '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.3/leim' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
m o d e SPC 0 ) ( m e n u - b a r - m o d e SPC 0 ) 
) " RET RET N o t e SPC t h a t SPC b o t h SPC t o 
o l b a r SPC a n d SPC m e n u b a r SPC h a v e SPC 
t o SPC b e SPC d i s a b l e d SPC t o SPC s e e SPC 
t h e SPC s h r i n k i n g SPC b e h a v i o r . RET 
RET F W I W , SPC h e r e ' s SPC a SPC v i d e o SPC 
t h a t SPC i l l u s t r a t e s SPC t h e SPC b e 
h a v i o r : SPC h t t p : / / w w w . y o u t u b 
e . c o m / w a t c h ? v = _ o K Q j P 8 x _ O s C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-a 
RET RET C-p C-p U b u n t u SPC 1 2 . 0 4 SPC B e t 
a SPC 1 RET U n i t y SPC d e s k t o p SPC e n v i 
r o n m e n t C-x C-s C-r RET C-g RET C-d <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <escape> x r e <tab> p o <tab> r t _ <backspace> 
- m <backspace> e m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Local Ispell dictionary set to en
Buffer dictionary is now en
Starting new Ispell process [en] ...
Spell Checking completed.
Auto-saving...done
Saving file /tmp/mutt-puna-1000-5652-19201588231566339693...
Wrote /tmp/mutt-puna-1000-5652-19201588231566339693
Quit
When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0
Making completion list... [2 times]

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/tex hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/tex-info hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-info
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/tex-buf hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-buf
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/context-nl hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/context-nl
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/multi-prompt hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/multi-prompt
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/latex hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/latex
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/tex-font hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-font
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/toolbar-x hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/toolbar-x
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fptex hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fptex
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/context hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/context
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/tex-style hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-style
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fold hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fold
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/tex-jp hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-jp
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/tex-bar hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-bar
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/tex-mik hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-mik
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/context-en hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/context-en
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/texmathp hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/texmathp
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/cmake-data/cmake-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cmake-mode
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/semi/pgg-def hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/pgg-def
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/semi/pgg-pgp hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/pgg-pgp
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/semi/pgg hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/pgg
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/flim/hex-util hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/hex-util
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/flim/md4 hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/md4
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/semi/pgg-parse hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/pgg-parse
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/flim/sha1 hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/sha1
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/semi/pgg-gpg hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/pgg-gpg
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/semi/pgg-pgp5 hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/pgg-pgp5
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/textmodes/ispell
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/textmodes/flyspell
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/flim/ntlm hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/net/ntlm
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/flim/sasl hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/net/sasl
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/flim/hmac-md5 hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/net/hmac-md5
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/flim/hmac-def hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/net/hmac-def
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/flim/sasl-digest hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/net/sasl-digest
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/flim/sasl-cram hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/net/sasl-cram
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/flim/sasl-ntlm hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/net/sasl-ntlm

Features:
(multi-isearch newcomment gnus-msg gnus-art mm-uu mml2015 epg-config
mm-view smime dig gnus-sum nnoo gnus-group gnus-undo nnmail mail-source
format-spec gnus-start gnus-spec gnus-int gnus-range gnus-win gnus
gnus-ems shadow sort mail-extr message sendmail ecomplete rfc822 mml
mml-sec password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse
rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util
netrc time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils wid-edit mailheader canlock
sha1 sha1-el hex-util hashcash mail-utils emacsbug help-mode view
iso-transl jka-compr paren advice advice-preload post help-fns easymenu
derived cl cl-19 server auto-dictionary regexp-opt flyspell ispell
bitmap bitmap-ci poem poem-e20 poem-e20_3 pces pces-e20 pces-20 broken
pcustom poe pym static apel-ver product debian-el debian-el-loaddefs
dpkg-dev-el dpkg-dev-el-loaddefs preview-latex tex-site auto-loads
tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd
font-setting tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page
menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock
font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang
misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew
greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button
minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64
format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote make-network-process dbusbind system-font-setting
font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)