Subject: Re: bug#60585: 30.0.50; global-text-scale-adjust shrinks window (was not before), was: Re: bug#52493: 29.0.50; Setting Inconsolata up in init.el makes default face rendered wrong

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 17:30:14 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>,  Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,
>>   [email-masked],  [email-masked]
>> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 09:36:41 +0800
>> 
>> 
>> Whenever you see an inconsistency between what Emacs thinks its WM hints
>> are, and what you think the window manager sees, try to actually read
>> the window manager hints property with `xprop'.
>> 
>> It should print several lines describing the window manager hints.
>> 
>> WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
>> 		program specified minimum size: 34 by 55
>> 		program specified resize increment: 8 by 17 <------
>> 		program specified base size: 34 by 55
>> 		window gravity: NorthWest
>> 
>> Check there to see if the increment is really 17x37.
>> Xt sometimes refuses to set hints, which can be very confusing.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Should this perhaps be in etc/DEBUG?

I think so.  As xprop is also useful when debugging any kind of problem
involving X window properties, so I guess the other uses should be
written down as well.