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26.0.50; Emacs starts fullscreen in Ubuntu 17.04

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 27357 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27357: 26.0.50; Emacs starts fullscreen in Ubuntu 17.04
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:09:07 +0200

>> Can you change those settings on a per application basis?
>
> Not that I know.  In any case, this seems like it's an Emacs bug, and
> shouldn't we fix that?

If it's an Emacs bug we should try to fix it.

>> IIRC GTK Emacs supports scaling only partially.  Could you try with
>> another toolkit?
>
> Well, this isn't about fixing my frames -- I can do that with a couple
> of lines of Emacs Lisp.  But Emacs seems to be buggy here, and it would
> be nice to fix that bug.

The question is whether GTK Emacs is buggy here.  If say, a Lucid build
behaves better, then we would have isolated a possible bug here.

>> Also, ISTR that people complained about mispositioned
>> scroll bars, menus and tooltips, sometimes alos about misplaced
>> underlinings and the like.  Do you see any of those effects too?
>
> Nope.

Probably because you did not set GDK_SCALE.

martin

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