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minibuffer beyond end of screen in emacs23

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, 3643 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#3643: emacs -Q doesn't fit on the user's screen
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:06:59 -0500

> Ok.  Maybe close this bug wih WONTFIX and tell people to get a better window
> manager?  Your Emacs is too big for your desktop area, but the wm
> fixes that.
> On compiz/metacity starting Emacs with something crazy like -geometry
> 80x4000+9000+9000 still produces a window that is within bounds.

I don't think that's the right answer.  I consider metacity's insistence
on preventing the user from resizing the window to be larger than the
screen to be a bug (or its insistence on preventing the user from
moving a window above the screen's top, similarly).

So I think Emacs should try to do a better job choosing a default size,
based on the screen size, such that the default size (including WM
decorations) is not larger than the screen.


        Stefan

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