bug#27923: 24.3; -iconic switch screws up geometry

[martin rudalics]

> Sorry, bad typing on my part.  35/34 was the height.
>
>>> Anyway, I finally got down to the following two lines:
>>>
>>> (menu-bar-mode -1)
>>> (set-default-font (x-get-resource "Font" ""))
>>
>>> With both of those present, I get the absurdly narrow frame. If I
>>> remove the first, then I get a frame that's 38x78.  If I leave the
>>> first and remove the second, I get a teeny frame that's too small to
>>> type in, but xwininfo reports it as 1x1 (so suppose emacs thinks it's
>>> 2x2).  And if I remove both, I get a properly sized frame. (This is
>>> all with my xrdb restored, BTW.)

So are you getting a weird height, a weird width, independently both or
simultaneously both?

> It may not happen until the Christmas break, but I'm sure I can manage
> to get the latest version installed.

This would be currently 26.0.90 which also has a quite extensive set of
functions to measure frame sizes and how they developed when starting
Emacs.

> It would be wonderful if the bug
> went away on its own!

Do they ever?

martin