GNU bug report logs - #19972
24.4; Font size change doesn't update (window-total-width)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Joost Kremers <joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm>

Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 02:32:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #128 received at 19972 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "steve <at> sanityinc.com" <steve <at> sanityinc.com>,
 "19972 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <19972 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#19972: Font size change doesn't update (window-total-width)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 21:19:14 +0100

Hi.



2 mar 2015 kl. 20:52 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:

>> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:06:55 +0100
>> From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
>> CC: steve <at> sanityinc.com, 19972 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii skrev 2015-03-02 18:56:
>>>> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:42:56 +0100
>>>> From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
>>>> CC: 19972 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>>> 
>>>> No, the window manager denies the original frame resize.  There is no
>>>> "resizing back".
>>> 
>>> Where in the code does this denial happen?
>> 
>> In the window manager code.
> 
> I meant where/how does Emacs know that its request to resize was
> denied?

When an X window is resized, it gets a ConfigureNotify event.  When the resize is denied, no event arrives.  That is why Emacs on X only considers ConfigureNotify as resizes.  If lisp code tries to resize, we make the request, but nothing is updated until we get a ConfigureNotify.

      Jan D.
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