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display-pixel-height not enough

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Message #83 received at 7296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#7296: display-pixel-height not enough
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:27:42 +0200

Lennart Borgman skrev 2010-10-30 16.05:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Jan Djärv<jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> Lennart Borgman skrev 2010-10-30 11.25:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Jan Djärv<jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The bug does not include any explanation why the current situation is a
>>>> problem or a use case that describes it.  So I don't know what this
>>>> information is for.  If it is for making an Emacs frame as tall as it can
>>>> be, that information is not it.
>>>
>>>
>>> The Emacs frame can be partly hidden by the taskbar even when the
>>> frame is the active w32 window if the height is set to the value
>>> x-dsiplay-pixel-height (when for example the frame is aligned to the
>>> top and the taskbar is at the bottom of the display), that is the
>>> problem. Sorry if that was unclear.
>>
>> What package does this?
>
> Every function that tries to maximize just height will do it.

I'd rather see that those functions let the window manager do the job, i.e. 
set fullscreen to fullheight.  I don't know if W32/Nextstep has something 
similar, but if they do, that is a better solution to implement.

	Jan D.

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