Annoying emacs resizing bug in F7 and F8.

Matthew Saltzman mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Wed Dec 12 13:33:31 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 22:02 -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> A few weeks ago I asked if anyone running 64bit F7 with KDE was having
> resizing problems with Emacs and several here confirmed the bug.
> 
> Today I had a few minutes and so I built both the F7 and F8 src.rpm of
> Emacs on a 32 bit FC6 laptop (which was all I have access to today) and
> experienced the same problems.  Evidently the move to Emacs-22.1 in F7
> has introduced this bug and it has nothing to do with the machine
> arch.  That's my guess.
> 
> Would two or three of you confirm this for 32-bit F8?  Just fire up
> emacs and bink on the maximise button. Then bink it again and see if
> Emacs returns to its original size.

This is *not* an issue for emacs-22.1-8.fc8 and GNOME.  (At least, I
couldn't reproduce it.)

> 
> I'd like to know the behaviour under both Gnome and KDE.  I only have
> KDE where it's broken for me.  Thanks.  I'll add your results to:
> 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393441>
> 
> and see if I can get some action on this bug.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Dean
> 
> 
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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