GNU bug report logs - #10954
Emacs window shrinks automatically

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: walter.garcia <at> upf.edu

Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 08:56:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs23/+bug/941790

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: walter.garcia <at> upf.edu
Cc: 10954-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10954: Emacs window shrinks automatically
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 19:56:05 +0100

Hello.

6 mar 2012 kl. 09:52 skrev Walter Garcia-Fontes:

> 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.
> 

The combination Gtk+ and Unity triggers a bug in one of them (not sure who has the bug).  If we set WM hints with base_height, one of them can't count and goes bananas.  I have checked in a fix in the trunk, which will be Emacs 24.  Please try it if you can.

	Jan D.
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