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24.3; -iconic switch screws up geometry

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Geoff Kuenning <geoff <at> cs.hmc.edu>, 27923 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27923: 24.3; -iconic switch screws up geometry
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:22:18 +0200

> In 24.3.1, starting emacs with the "-iconic" switch causes the main
> emacs window to be sized to the width of the icon rather than the width
> specified in the X resource database.  Interestingly, the height is
> still correct.  Compare the window created by:
>
>      $ emacs &
>
> with the one from:
>
>      $ emacs -iconic &
>
> On my system, the output for "xrdb -query | grep -i emacs" is:
>
> gnuemacs.geometry:      80x78+1180+0
> Emacs.Font:     -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-100-100-*-*-ISO8859-1
> gnuemacs*cursorColor:   red
> lemacs*cursorColor:     red
>
> (I realize that some of these entries are obsolete...)

Thanks for the report; apologizes for the late response.  Are you sure
that your display is at least 1900 pixels wide?  If so, then when with
emacs -Q you evaluate the form

(setq default-frame-alist
      '((width . 80)
	(height . 78)
	(left . 1180)
	(font . "-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-100-100-*-*-ISO8859-1")
	(visibility . icon)))

and subsequently do C-x 5 2 and deiconify the new frame, does it have
the desired properties?

Thanks, martin

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