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29.0.50; set-frame-width and frame-width are not exactly complimentary

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj <at> codeisgreat.org>
Cc: 56457 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56457: 29.0.50; set-frame-width and frame-width are not exactly complimentary
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2022 16:21:09 +0800

Pankaj Jangid <pankaj <at> codeisgreat.org> writes:

> If I set it to "t" then my toggle function also works correctly. And the
> new frames are launched with frame-width 80. Here is my slightly updated
> lisp,
>
> (custom-set-variables
>  '(frame-resize-pixelwise t))
>
> (defun my/cycle-frame-width ()
>   "Cycle \"frame-width\"."
>   (interactive)
>   
>   (let ((width (frame-width)))
> 	(if (and (> width 75) (< width 85))
> 		(set-frame-width nil (* width 2))
> 	  (set-frame-width nil (/ width 2)))
> 	(message "Frame size: %sx%s" (frame-width) (frame-height))))
> (global-set-key (kbd "<f9>") 'my/cycle-frame-width)
>
> The only issue now is that, the "(message..." statement prints width as
> 83. I don't know why. If I evaluate (frame-width), it shows 80.

Then that's a known problem with PGTK.  I will look into it some more in
the near future, but it's probably a GTK bug.

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