From unknown Wed Sep 10 01:08:58 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#4640 <4640@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#4640 <4640@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: 23.1.50; GNU Emacs does not follow geometry settings from command line Reply-To: bug#4640 <4640@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:08:58 +0000 retitle 4640 23.1.50; GNU Emacs does not follow geometry settings from comm= and line reassign 4640 emacs submitter 4640 Peter Dyballa severity 4640 normal thanks From Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE Mon Oct 5 02:38:12 2009 Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 5 Oct 2009 09:38:12 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (2008-06-10) on rzlab.ucr.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. 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A French brought this problem up in help-gnu-emacs for GNU Emacs =20 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 A second frame, from C-x 5 2, is put at the right edge of my screen: Corners: +1244+176 -14+176 -14-402 +1244-402 -geometry 20x20-12+148 My window manager is Blackbox 0.65.0 : (c) 2001 - 2002 Sean 'Shaleh' =20 Perry 1997 - 2000, 2002 Brad Hughes My xserver is X11 1.1.3 - XFree86 4.4.0, provided by Apple. GNU Emacs 23.1.50 uses more up-to-date X libraries from outside (from =20= the MacPorts project). In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, GTK+ Version 2.16.6) of 2009-10-03 on Latsche.local Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version =20 11.0.40400000 configured using `configure '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '--=20 with-dbus' '--with-libotf' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' =20 '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--x-libraries=3D/opt/local/lib' '--x-=20 includes=3D/opt/local/include' '--enable-locallisppath=3D/Library/=20 Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/Application Support/=20 Emacs' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=3D/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/share/=20 pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig' 'CFLAGS=3D-ggdb3 =20= -gfull -mtraceback=3Dfull -Wno-pointer-sign -H -pipe -fPIC -mcpu=3D7450 = -=20 mtune=3D7450 -mtune=3DG4 -fast -mpim-altivec -ftree-vectorize = -foptimize-=20 register-move -freorder-blocks -fthread-jumps -fpeephole -fno-=20 crossjumping' 'LDFLAGS=3D-dead_strip -multiply_defined suppress' =20 'CPPFLAGS=3D-no-cpp-precomp -I/usr/include/openssl -I/sw/include/=20 pango-1.0 -I/sw/lib/fontconfig2/include -I/usr/local/include -I/sw/=20 include'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-x 5 2 -- Greetings Pete You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, =20= for instance. =96 Franklin P. Jones From schwab@linux-m68k.org Mon Oct 5 03:11:51 2009 Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 5 Oct 2009 10:11:51 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (2008-06-10) on rzlab.ucr.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. 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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:11:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Peter Dyballa's message of "Mon, 5 Oct 2009 11:37:56 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.12 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Peter Dyballa writes: > 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 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 Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." From jan.h.d@swipnet.se Mon Oct 5 10:16:17 2009 Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 5 Oct 2009 17:16:17 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (2008-06-10) on rzlab.ucr.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. 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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 My guess is that the width is calculated with the wrong font. I'll check. > > A second frame, from C-x 5 2, is put at the right edge of my screen: > > Corners: +1244+176 -14+176 -14-402 +1244-402 > -geometry 20x20-12+148 > The placement part of the geometry is not valid for subsequent frames, it only applies to the first one. The window manager places the other frames. Jan D. 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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. 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X-CrossAssassin-Score: 3 Andreas Schwab skrev: > Peter Dyballa writes: > >> 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 > > 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 > I can not reproduce this under KDE. If it still happens, reopen this bug with more information (KDE version, theme used, Gtk-engine on or off, font used). Jan D. From unknown Wed Sep 10 01:08:58 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. 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