Subject: Re: bug#31626: Emacs window resizes when entering dired mode

From: Alain Knaff <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 16:00:03 +0000

On 2018-05-28 17:54, Robert Pluim wrote:
[...]
> My crystal ball says youʼre using a HiDpi display, and you have menus
> enabled. Setting the environment variable GDK_SCALE to 1 before
> running emacs might help.

Nope, doesn't help, unfortunately :-(

> 
> There have been some scaling related fixes in the just-released
> emacs-26, would it be possible for you to try that version?

Is there a repository where I can easily get that version from into
Ubuntu? Or else, is there a way to disable this "scaling" in dired mode?
Apparently it seems that this is something specific that dired "does",
for whatever reason, as it happens in no other circumstance.

> Regards
> Robert

Thanks,

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