Subject: bug#13469: 24.2; emacs has a tiny frame, when I embed it in a kmail text field via xembed (--parent-id %w)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:46:16 +0200

> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:39:24 +0100
> From: "Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK)" <[email-masked]>
> 
> I can reproduce this bug with a simple qxembed frame. Steps:
> 
> 
> (1) Get qxembed-emacs:
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/kembed-emacs/src/71b958b3f737a62987dfc7cd39eb3edcb02308b2/qxembed-emacs.py
>     hg clone https://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/kembed-emacs
> 
> (2) run ./qxembed-emacs.py
> 
> (3) resize the qxembed-window.
> 
> (4) do the same with ./qxembed-emacs.py --basic
>     this opens emacs with -Q --basic-display
> 
> 
> For me, (3) has an embedded emacs which shrinks down instantly to maybe
> 5 chars after releasing the window.
> 
> With (4) the embedded emacs is adjusted to the window size after the
> first resize and then stays embedded correctly. But it looks odd due to
> the --basic-display.

Is there any evidence that this is an Emacs bug, and not a bug in
qxembed-emacs.py?  Can you reproduce something similar with just
Emacs?