Annoying emacs resizing bug in F7 and F8.

Martin Marques martin at marquesminen.com.ar
Wed Dec 12 13:41:44 UTC 2007


Dean S. Messing escribió:
> Dean 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.
> : 
> : 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.
> 
> Sorry to reply to my own message.
> 
> I just discovered that this is a "well-known" bug w/in the emacs
> development crowd (including Richard Stallman)[1].  There is evidently
> a nasty interaction between Emacs-22 and KDE which is causing this
> annoying bug.  (Explains why I am not seeing it with Gnome.)  As of
> Dec. 8th, they were working on it.
> 
> Please ignore the above request for tests.  Fedora
> probably won't touch this if it's being worked on upstream.
> 
> [1] <http://www.nabble.com/-werner@suse.de:-Several-problems-in-KDE-KWin--td14216807.html> 

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