Re: Emacs's set-frame-size can not work well with gnome-shell?

[martin rudalics]

> So, I tried this stuff on an old laptop. Ubuntu 16.04, with whatever
> version of Unity was there, as well as with GNOME Shell 3.18 (and the
> same version of GTK3 in both cases). No scaling.

Thank you.

> Unity:
>
> Child frame resizes fine, just like in all other DEs aside from Mutter, 
apparently.
>
> GNOME:
>
> Child frame does not resize, even using these rather old GNOME Mutter and GTK.
>
> Dragging a normal un-decorated Lucid frame is smooth-ish (with pauses).

GC pauses maybe.

> Although I hadn't tried the more involved experiment involving a child frame.
>
> In both:
>
> Normal un-decorated frames have exactly the same drag-resizing behavior 
problem that I described before, so it's definitely not HiDPI-related.

Can you please summarize that behavior in one or two sentences.

In either case the child frame issue cannot be resolved from here.  We
have to discuss that with the mutter people.

martin