GNU bug report logs - #54237
Disabling `scroll-bar-mode' fails when setting `default-frame-alist'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland <at> ntnu.no>

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 14:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland <at> ntnu.no>
Cc: 54237 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54237: Disabling `scroll-bar-mode' fails when setting `default-frame-alist'
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 16:56:58 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

>> The problem arose since `set-cursor-color' doesn't work when starting
>> Emacs as a server so I changed `default-frame-alist' but that enabled
>> `scroll-bar-mode' ...
>>
>> Feel free to close this as it's not a bug, then.
>
> Perhaps this quirk should be documented in the scroll-bar-mode doc
> string, though?

I've now done so in Emacs 29 in both the scroll-bar-mode and
default-frame-alist doc strings.  (The latter already hinted at there
being problems with setting it directly, but I've made it more
explicit.)

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