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Disabling menu-bar-mode changes size of new frames

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Message #245 received at 72986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 72986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#72986: Disabling menu-bar-mode changes size of new frames
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:00:55 +0100

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> Assuming that this problem affects all or most users of recent GNOME, it
> would be fantastic to have this patch installed. It's a very unsatisfactory
> fix (because we don't understand what the problem really is, or even where,
> I think?), but the current situation is quite annoying (every time I open a
> new Emacs frame, I first have to resize it before I can use it).
> Thanks again to Martin; having myself had to do quite a lot of proxy
> debugging of weird effects on systems I don't use, I appreciate the
> patience and hard thought that goes into trying to diagnose and fix this
> sort of bug.

I now added a variable called 'x-gtk-insist-on-requested-size'.  If
non-nil, it should do what its doc-string says.  The rest of the
attached patch is mostly what was in a diff I earlier posted as
gtkutil-reject-2024-10-02.diff.  Please try it.

Thanks, martin

[gtkutil-reject-11.diff (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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