GNU bug report logs - #7296
display-pixel-height not enough

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:08:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #62 received at 7296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: 7296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#7296: display-pixel-height not enough
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:05:10 +0200

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Jan D. <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier skrev 2010-10-29 18:24:
>>>
>>> On Gnome, the window manager won't let you do this, so when you set frame
>>
>> You mean: Gnome's default window-manager doesn't let you do it.
>> Many other window-managers that you can use with Gnome let you do it.
>
> Right, I only tested with Compiz and metacity.  Then again, it shows that
> the issue is more complicated than just replacing display-width/height with
> "available" width/height.

In what way do you mean this shows that using the available
width/height will fail?

At least on w32 there are system API:s that directly gives you the
available width/height, taking the taskbar etc status into account.
Nothing more than that is needed.

Maybe you mean that sometimes you want the total display width/height?
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