Re: address@hidden: Several problems in KDE/KWin]

[Stephen Berman]

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:30:04 +0100 Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote:

> Stephen Berman skrev:
>> On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:08:00 +0100 Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> If you try to maximize a second time the frame is actually truely
>>> maximized.  
>> 
>> This is so if you maximize either vertically (mouse-2) or horizontally
>> (mouse-3) but not for both dimensions simultaneously (mouse-1).
>> 
>>>             But unmaximizing restores intermediate, nearly maximized
>>> size, not the original one.
>> 
>> This behavior has varied in the course of Emacs 22 development.  For
>> further details see
>> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/77970>.
>> 
>
> It is the same root cause as the "describe-{function,variable} shrinks
> frame (GTK+/KDE)" problem
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-11/msg01108.html).

I suspected this was the case.

> I so far figured out that is has to do with wm size hints.  Gtk+
> enforces size hits by itself, and then the window manager also does
> it.  There is a race condition in there somewhere, so that Emacs
> resizes itself one time too many.
>
> But I am working on it.

I am grateful for that and would be glad to help by testing or anything
else I can do.

Steve Berman