see : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10152287/how-to-remove-toolbar-in-emacs-in-windows-without-losing-windows-maximized-stat/10176596#10176596
When I try to disable the toolbar in my .emacs using the following command :
(custom-set-variables
'(tool-bar-mode nil)
)
or (UPDATE) following :
(tool-bar-mode -1)
the window's maximum size is reduced to only a part of the screen.
It even isn't in 'restored window size modus', but it really thinks it is maximized, so maximizing it again (using a w32-send command for example) has no effect.
If I apply the same command after starting up in lisp-interatction mode, this behaviour does not occur.
windows emacs
In GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600)
of 2012-01-29 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: NLB
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8
default enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Help
Minor modes in effect:
recentf-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
view-mode: t
Recent input:
<C-S-right> <C-S-right> <C-S-right> M-w C-x C-f C-x
C-r <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <return> <down> <down> <down> <down> <end> <return>
- SPC C-y SPC ( e m a c s ) C-x C-s <return> - SPC
a p p e n d e n SPC <backspace> SPC a a n SPC v a s
t e SPC f i l e s SPC w a n n e e r SPC s u r r o u
n d e , SPC e g SPC [ [ e a m <backspace> <backspace>
m a c s SPC d i <backspace> e z e SPC t e k s t SPC
g a a t SPC n a a r SPC e m a s c SPC <backspace> f
i l e SPC ] ] C-x C-s <up> SPC + SPC o i n <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> i n t e r p r e t e r m o d
e SPC a l i s t C-x C-s <down> <end> <return> <return>
C-x C-s <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> C-x C-r <down> <return> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <wheel-down> <wheel-down>
<wheel-up> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <wheel-down> <wheel-down>
<wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down>
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-v <down-mouse-1>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <drag-mouse-1> M-x C-y <home>
<delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <return> <help-echo>
w i n d o w SPC <backspace> - z <backspace> s z i <backspace>
<backspace> i e z SPC <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
z e SPC w h e n SPC s e e t <backspace> <backspace>
t t e i n <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> i n g
SPC t o o <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <drag-mouse-1>
<help-echo> M-x <up> <return>
Recent messages:
Wrote c:/Workdir/main/docs/pile/tolookat.txt
Saving file c:/Workdir/main/docs/pile/tolookat.txt...
Wrote c:/Workdir/main/docs/pile/tolookat.txt
Quit
Mark set
Open c:/Workdir/main/docs/pile/tolookat.txt
byte-code: End of buffer [2 times]
byte-code: Beginning of buffer [3 times]
Buffer is read-only: #<buffer *Help*>
Quit
mouse-minibuffer-check: Minibuffer window is not active
Load-path shadows:
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/speedbar/speedbar hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/speedbar
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/speedbar/sb-image hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/sb-image
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/common/ezimage hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/ezimage
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/speedbar/dframe hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/dframe
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/eieio/eieio hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/eieio/eieio-speedbar hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-speedbar
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/eieio/eieio-opt hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-opt
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/eieio/eieio-datadebug hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-datadebug
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/eieio/eieio-custom hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-custom
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/eieio/eieio-comp hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-comp
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/eieio/eieio-base hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-base
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/eieio/chart hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/chart
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/srecode/srecode hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/cedet/srecode
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/semantic/semantic hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/cedet/semantic
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/common/pulse hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/cedet/pulse
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/common/mode-local hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/cedet/mode-local
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/common/inversion hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/cedet/inversion
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/ede/ede hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/cedet/ede
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/common/data-debug hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/cedet/data-debug
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/common/cedet hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/cedet/cedet
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/common/cedet-idutils hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/cedet/cedet-idutils
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/common/cedet-global hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/cedet/cedet-global
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/common/cedet-files hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/cedet/cedet-files
c:/workdir/apps/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0.1/common/cedet-cscope hides c:/workdir/apps/emacs/lisp/cedet/cedet-cscope
Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr message ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec
password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231
rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc
time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util
hashcash mail-utils emacsbug pp cus-edit eieio-opt help-mode view
multi-isearch semantic-el semantic-bovine bovine-debug semantic-debug
semantic-find sr-speedbar semantic-util-modes semantic-util semantic
semantic-lex semantic-tag semantic-fw semantic-loaddefs eieio warnings
byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile eieio-comp inversion mode-local find-func
advice help-fns advice-preload working fame cus-start cus-load recentf
tree-widget wid-edit edmacro kmacro tidy compile comint php-mode derived
etags ring cc-langs cl cl-19 cc-mode cc-fonts cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles
cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs regexp-opt speedbar sb-image ezimage
dframe easymenu assoc tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel
dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image
fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select
scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai
tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european
ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help
simple abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files
text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom
widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process multi-tty
emacs)