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24.3; Don't constrain frame size to character multiples

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Message #122 received at 14233 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 14233 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	esabof <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#14233: 24.3; Don't constrain frame size to character multiples
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:34:25 +0200

>> How would he do that in the first place if the frame doesn't get resized
>> pixelwise?
>
> As I explained earlier, when the window managers maximizes,
> fullscreen:s or tiles Emacs frames, the size hint is ignored, so the
> frame is sized pixelwise, in the sense that the frame size is not an
> integer multiple of the character size.  But the fraction that isn't a
> full character size gets wasted, because windows (in Emacs terms) can
> not resie pixelwise.

Maybe we have different conceptions of Stefan's use case then.  He said
"I'd appreciate pixel-precise sizing of my frames" but maybe this just
refers to the fact that these pixels stay at the bottom of the correctly
sized frame.

martin

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