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

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From: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
To: 7004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7004: 23.2; In fullscreen mode, the echo area takes too much vertical space
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:40:36 -0400

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| From your picture:
| The height of tool bar + menu bar is 73 pixels.
| Your font height is 17 pixels.
| (1024 - 73)/17 = 55.94117
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But, it can also happen when the tool-bar/menu-bar aren't displayed.
Shouldn't the display calculations take this into consideration?

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| The remnant (0.94117) is just wasted space, no whole line can be
made to fit in
| to it so it shows up at the botton as unused space. Any window
height that isn't
| an integral of the font height will show like this.
|
| There is no bug here,
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It certainly isn't a feature!
I find it can render fullscreen usage aesthetically untenable.

FWIW I've had to tweak X to get (somewhat) satisfactory fullscreen behaviour.

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