Subject: Re: bug#4640: 23.1.50; GNU Emacs does not follow geometry settings from command line

From: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:22:13 +0200

Peter Dyballa skrev:
> Hello!
> 
> A French brought this problem up in help-gnu-emacs for GNU Emacs 23.1. 
> The bug seems to exist also in the CVS version. Launched as
> 
>     src/emacs -Q -g 20x20+200+200 &
> 
> the frame is wider than thought and xwininfo then shows:
> 
>       Corners:  +202+228  -930+228  -930-350  +202-350
>       -geometry 38x20+200+200

It was the menu bar that determined the width of the frame.  It does this even 
if menu bar mode is off, as the menu bar is first added then removed later on.

Andreas Schwab wrote:

> I'm seeing the opposite effect: the resulting frame is too small.  This
> is under KDE.
> 
>   Corners:  +204+225  -1164+225  -1164-310  +204-310
>   -geometry 20x18+200+200

This is a total mystery.  Can you try again with an up-to-date emacs?
Do you by any chance remove scroll bars and/or fringes?

	Jan D.