The Incredible Shrinking Emacs/GTK

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

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and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Nothing serious, hopefully already notited, but in using the GTK+ version
with GNUS, the Emacs window shrinks over time due to miscalculations in
the frame size.  This may happen with other applications, but I think
GNUS re-divides the frames so often that the effect is very pronounced.

I think what happens is a miscalculation of the mini-buffer height.  When
empty, it is one size, when something is printed the whole frame grows to
accommodate the text, and then when we go back to a sub-height minibuffer
the whole frame shrinks but just a tiny bit more than when it started.
Over the course of the day, my 43-line frame will slowly shrink down to
about two dozen lines.


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.4)
 of 2005-05-31 on maya.dyndns.org
Distributor `Mandrakelinux (X.Org X11 6.8.2, patch level 7mdk)', version 
11.0.60802000
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr' '--with-x' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: en
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_CA
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_CA
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_CA
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_CA
  value of $LC_TIME: en_CA
  value of $LANG: en_CA
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  gnus-topic-mode: t
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  next-error-follow-minor-mode:  Fol

Recent input:
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-c < C-c r 
<switch-frame> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-2> 
<mouse-2> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <down> SPC 
y n <down> # # # # # B m <return> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> <help-echo> <switch-frame> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <tool-bar> <Exit group> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<help-echo> h e n r i SPC n a g i o s SPC f e e d 2 
SPC l o a d <return> <up> M-f M-f M-f <backspace> 1 
<return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <switch-frame> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> 
<report-emacs-bug>

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