Re: Small gaps beside the scrollbar

[akarl]

Jan D. wrote:
> > 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.  

Can't see how the scrollbar with can be a problem. Ok, Emacs let's the 
user resize the window (contents of the window) in character units, but 
a (GNOME) window can have *any* size.

> 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.

This is not specific to Emacs compiled with GTK support. The standard X 
Windows scrollbar has the same problem.

-- August