Subject: bug#19972: 24.4; Font size change doesn't update (window-total-width)

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:26:50 +0100

> Lisp code that expects resize changes to be handeled synchronously and in order are fundamentally broken.
 >
 > That said, it may very well be a race here, i.e. the wrong height gets sent.  But this is only because bad Lisp code assumes synchronous handling.

Fully agreed.  Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to explain this
to users :-(

BTW what is the x_wait_for_event in x_set_window_size_1 then really
needed for?

martin