bug#8536: 23.2; Start option geometry is ignored

[Glenn Morris]

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Harald Brennich wrote:

> When emacs is started via command line
> emacs -g 81x60
> or
> emacs -geometry 81x60
> the number of characters fitting in a line is 81, but the number of
> lines is 33 (ignoring the title, the menu, the bottom line of the buffer
> and the minibuffer) independant of the number specified in -g mxn.

I cannot reproduce this. Does it happen with `emacs -Q -geometry...'?
Do you have any X resources, or "desktop environment settings" (whatever
those might be...) that could be relevant?
Can you try Emacs 23.3?

> In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.1)