GNU bug report logs - #7004
23.2; In fullscreen mode, the echo area takes too much vertical space

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:13:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 15046

Found in versions 23.2, 24.3.50

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
Cc: 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 18:06:56 +0200

2010-09-10 15:40, MON KEY skrev:
> ,----
> | From your picture:
> | The height of tool bar + menu bar is 73 pixels.
> | Your font height is 17 pixels.
> | (1024 - 73)/17 = 55.94117
> `----
>
> But, it can also happen when the tool-bar/menu-bar aren't displayed.
> Shouldn't the display calculations take this into consideration?
>

How?  Adjust the resolution?  Wasted space is wasted space.  What can we do 
with it?  Select a smaller font for that line?

	Jan D.
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 161 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.