GNU bug report logs - #76751
31.0.50; Bad window sizing with pgtk (bisected)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet <at> lwn.net>

Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 00:08:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 31.0.50

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, corbet <at> lwn.net
Cc: 76751 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76751: 31.0.50; Bad window sizing with pgtk (bisected)
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 12:28:40 +0300
Ping! Ping!  Po Lu and Jonathan, please respond, so we could make
further progress with this issue.

> Cc: 76751 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:26:32 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Ping!  Any ideas for how to make progress with this issue?
> 
> > From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet <at> lwn.net>
> > Cc: 76751 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 08:08:16 -0600
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> > 
> > >> From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> > >> Cc: 76751 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  corbet <at> lwn.net
> > >> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 21:08:59 +0800
> > >> 
> > >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> > >> 
> > >> > Did you have a chance to look into this?
> > >> 
> > >> Yes, but I was stymied by the fact that the PGTK port delegates scaling
> > >> to GTK, and so `xg_get_scale' always returns 1, on which account the
> > >> commit Johnathan identified should not have affected any behavior, on
> > >> such configurations, that is.
> > >
> > > So what should we do to make some progress here?
> > >
> > > Or is this problem not solvable in Emacs?
> > 
> > Reverting the commit definitely fixed things here.  I wish I understood
> > more about how this stuff works to try to track things down, but I'm a
> > dumb kernel guy...  I guess I should go look at the problem that fix was
> > originally put in to solve, maybe there's a clue there.
> > 
> > I take it nobody else has complained?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > jon
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 




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