My display is 3840x1200. I'm pretty sure that's wider than
1900. ;-)
That's bad because it means we are in the area of one of the
most
elusive bugs I've seen over the past years. Your scenario has
been
already reported (with .emacs instead of using a resource file)
as
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24526
and probably also here
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=25943
The underlying problem seems to be that the geometry settings
for an
invisible or iconified frame get lost somewhere and are not
processed
(or even reverted) when the frame is made visible. On Windows,
the bug
manifests itself when specifying the geometry in the init file
but not
when the geometry is specified as command argument. On
GNU/Linux the
bug seems to depend on the window manager - I can't reproduce it
here on
Debian using Xfwm.
In your suggested test, yes, setting default-frame-alist and
then
creating a new iconified frame does indeed give me the desired
properties.
Which suggests that creating the initial frame with its
dimensions is
the culprit. What does M-: RET (frame-width) RET of the
deformed frame
print?
Please let me know if there are any additional tests you'd like
me to perform.
There are. First I would like to see whether the bug occurs
with all
possible invocation scenarios in the same way. Please invoke
Emacs as
emacs -Q --iconic --geometry 80x78+1180+0 --font
"-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-100-100-*-*-ISO8859-1"
as
emacs -Q --iconic --load ~/init.el
with init.el specified as
(setq default-frame-alist
'((width . 80)
(height . 78)
(left . 1180)
(font
. "-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-100-100-*-*-ISO8859-1")))
and as
emacs -Q --load ~/init.el
with init.el specified as
(setq default-frame-alist
'((width . 80)
(height . 78)
(left . 1180)
(font
. "-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-100-100-*-*-ISO8859-1")
(visibility . icon)))
and tell me whether the results are the same. Also, please tell
me what
your original scenario gives with the line specifying the font
setting
removed from the resource file.
Thanks, martin
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