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Article #1880Re: Epoch Lies About Size
From: Alan M. Carroll
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 14:09
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 14:09
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In article <2885926144-4961671@Islington-Terrace>, pf@islington-terrace.csc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua) writes: > > I've just noticed a little oddity with Epoch 3.2pl2 -- its windows > lie about their sizes. My default geometry is 90x30, and the main > windows come up 90x30 (according to both my count and (screen-height) > and (screen-width)). > However, if I use a window manager to resize them, the indicated > size is 86x28 (true for twm, tvtwm, and mwm; I don't know how to make > olwm display size while resizing). > This leads me to believe that the width-increment and > height-increment in the size-hints are being calculated incorrectly, > though I can't figure out how, since both Epoch and Emacs apparently use > the same font attributes for the increment calculations. No, it's not an increment problem, but the difference between the base size and the minimum size. In order to avoid crashing, Epoch enforces a minimum size, which is the difference between what the screen size really is, and what the WM reports it as, e.g. the WM is telling you how much bigger than the minimum the window is, not the absolute size. Alledgedly under R4 you can specify an additional value (the base size) to get around this, but it doesn't seem to work. Debugging runs claim that the hints are getting set correctly (i.e., base_width, base_height are 0, and PBaseSize is set), but there's no effect. -- Alan M. Carroll <-- Another casualty of applied metaphysics Epoch Development Team Urbana Il. "I hate shopping with the reality-impaired" - Susan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7ee,2506d25095f1502e X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7ee,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-06-18 12:14:51 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!decwrl!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!uiucdcs!carroll From: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Subject: Re: Epoch Lies About Size Message-ID: <1991Jun18.140926.8608@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 18 Jun 91 14:09:26 GMT References: <2885926144-4961671@Islington-Terrace> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Organization: Delta Group Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: ash.cs.uiuc.edu