GNU bug report logs - #1289
23.0.60; ridiculously large frame after maximizing and resizing back

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>

Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 07:45:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 1289 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1289: 23.0.60; ridiculously large frame after maximizing and resizing back
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:22:58 -0400

> Starting Emacs with `emacs --geometry=85x46+35+35 &' gives huge values
> for (frame-height) and (frame-width) after maximizing the frame and
> resizing it back:

> before maximizing: (frame-height) => 46, (frame-width) => 85
> after maximizing: (frame-height) => 65, (frame-width) => 124
> after unmaximizing: (frame-height) => 716, (frame-width) => 889

> My window manager is IceWM 1.2.35.

Sounds like the remembered size is the window's pixel size but it is
then set (upon unmaximize) as a line&col size.
It might be a bug in IceWM, or at least a bad interaction.  If you can
reproduce it with some other program (e.g. xterm), then it's clearly an
IceWM bug.


        Stefan
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