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Re: Epoch Lies About Size

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From: Alan M. Carroll
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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