address@hidden: emacs -g WIDTHxHEIGHT only observed on "odd" frames]

[Richard Stallman]

Would someone please fix this, then ack?

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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:37:10 -0700
From: "Andrew M. Scott" <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: emacs -g WIDTHxHEIGHT only observed on "odd" frames
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The command-line section of the Emacs info pages says that WIDTH and
HEIGHT are supposed to apply to *all* frames. Current behavior is that
it only applies to the first, third, fifth, etc. but not second,
fourth, etc. frames:

   `-g WIDTHxHEIGHT[{+-}XOFFSET{+-}YOFFSET]]'
  `--geometry=WIDTHxHEIGHT[{+-}XOFFSET{+-}YOFFSET]]'

     Specify the size WIDTH and HEIGHT (measured in character columns
     and lines), and positions XOFFSET and YOFFSET (measured in
     pixels). The WIDTH and HEIGHT parameters apply to all frames,
     whereas XOFFSET and YOFFSET only to the initial frame.

To reproduce:

My .Xdefaults contains:
Emacs.Geometry:       125x50-5+50

Using an Oct 16, 2006 CVS snapshot and gnu/linux local compile:

% emacs -Q -g 100x38 &
brings up the first frame

(frame-width)100
(frame-height)40 

C-x 5 b 
brings up the 2nd frame that's much bigger (no longer fitting in my VNC
window)

C-x b *scratch*
(frame-width)125
(frame-height)52 (Hmm, that's *bigger* than the 50 in my .Xdefaults.
                  Is the vertical delta due to my fvwm2 titlebar width?)

default-frame-alist is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Value:
((tool-bar-lines . 1)
 (menu-bar-lines . 1)
 (width . 125)
 (height . 50)
 (right-fringe)
 (left-fringe)
 (user-size . t)
 (height . 38)
 (width . 100))

If I open up a third frame:
C-x 5 b 
This one is now the right size!

C-x b *scratch*
(frame-width)100
(frame-height)40

Similarly, a fourth frame looks like the second (over-large).

Andy Scott


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2006-10-16 on chlr6708
X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40201000
configured using `configure '--prefix=/stor/garray/linux_2.6.5_x86-64' 
'--x-includes=/usr/intel/pkgs/X11/R7.0/include' 
'--x-libraries=/usr/intel/pkgs/X11/R7.0/lib' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 
-I/usr/intel/pkgs/X11/R7.0/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/X11/R7.0/lib 
-I/usr/intel/pkgs/zlib/1.2.3/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/zlib/1.2.3/lib  
-I/usr/intel/pkgs/ncurses/5.5/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/ncurses/5.5/lib 
-I/usr/intel/pkgs/libungif/4.1.4/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/libungif/4.1.4/lib 
-I/usr/intel/pkgs/libpng/1.2.12/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/libpng/1.2.12/lib 
-I/usr/intel/pkgs/jpeg/6b-2/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/jpeg/6b-2/lib 
-I/usr/intel/pkgs/libglade/2.5.1/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/libglade/2.5.1/lib64 
-I/usr/intel/pkgs/gtk+/2.8.17/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/gtk+/2.8.17/lib64 
-I/usr/intel/pkgs/lesstif/0.94.4/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/lesstif/0.94.4/lib' 
'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/intel/pkgs/X11/R7.0/lib -L/usr/intel/pkgs/zlib/1.2.3/lib 
-L/usr/intel/pkgs/ncurses/5.5/lib -L/usr/intel/pkgs/libungif/4.1.4/!
 lib -L/usr/intel/pkgs/libpng/1.2.12/lib -L/usr/intel/pkgs/jpeg/6b-2/lib 
-Wl,-rpath=/usr/intel/pkgs/X11/R7.0/lib:/usr/intel/pkgs/zlib/1.2.3/lib:/usr/intel/pkgs/ncurses/5.5/lib:/usr/intel/pkgs/libungif/4.1.4/lib:/usr/intel/pkgs/libpng/1.2.12/lib:/usr/intel/pkgs/jpeg/6b-2/lib:/usr/intel/pkgs/libglade/2.5.1/lib64:/usr/intel/pkgs/gtk+/2.8.17/lib64:/usr/intel/pkgs/lesstif/0.94.4/lib''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  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: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t


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