Re: Small gaps beside the scrollbar

[Jan D.]

> Start emacs with `emacs -q'. Look at the scrollbars to the left (main
> window and mode line). There is a small gap between the left window
> edge and the scrollbar and between the scrollbar and the left
> fringe. The gaps display the background color. There should be
> no such gaps.

In order to make resizing consistent, Emacs keeps the scroll bar at  
the same width as the character width.  But the GTK scroll bars have  
a fixed width, which only sometimes are the same width as the Emacs  
character width.  Therefore there are gaps.

    Jan D.