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23.2; In fullscreen mode, the echo area takes too much vertical space

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 7004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7004: 23.2; In fullscreen mode, the echo area takes too much vertical space
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:06 +0200

martin rudalics skrev 2010-09-16 14.10:
>  > Did you read "...  when not using the X toolkit ..."?
>
> The doc-string of `frame-pixel-height' tells me that
>
> In the Gtk+ version of Emacs, it includes only any window (including
> the minibuffer or eacho area), mode line, and header line. It does
> not include the tool bar or menu bar.
>
> With the Motif or Lucid toolkits, it also includes the tool bar (but
> not the menu bar).
>
> so this should take care of the remaining cases. Or am I missing
> something?
>

You are not making any sense.  You showed code for FRAME_TOOL/MENU_BAR_LINES
and now you talk about the total frame height.  What "cases" are you referring to?

>  > These just act as booleans for the non-native case, i.e. anything
>  > non-zero means on.
>
> Maybe that's the reason why my maximized frame starts out as not really
> full-screen-height and changes to full-screen height after some dialogue
> in the minibuffer-window. Also, on a tiled screen the Emacs frame is
> the only "window" that doesn't entirely fill the space assigned by the
> window manager. On Windows XP with toolbar-mode turned off.
>

W32 fullscreen behaviour is not relevant at all for X.

	Jan D.

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