GNU bug report logs - #18107
emacsclient: maximization and size hints

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>, 18107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18107: emacsclient: maximization and size hints
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:32:16 +0200

> this is a problem I've seen many times with terminals running inside tiling
> window managers that doesn't honor size hints. Sometimes the client gets
> resized and a previously rendered area (usually at the bottom) is not
> cleared, because the client itself asumes it's not in charge of that area
> (because of the size hints it exposes, requiring to be resized at char size
> multiples). Well, that's happening in latest 24.3 when launched the way I
> described. I guess that, in order to reoroduce the issue, you will have to
> set an initial geometry heigher than you screen, so that maximization turns
> the window shorter. The phantom modeline will be then just a residual copy
> of the modeline in an area outside of the geometry hinted by emacs, at the
> very bottom of the frame. Hope it's clear now. Also, I tested this with the
> latest pretest and it's not happening anymore because of the new resizing
> policy. Cheers, Carlos.

So can we close this bug?

martin

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