bug#11113: 23.3; Access to the mini-buffer in auctex mode triggers window resize in KDE (Kwin)

[Jorge Adriano Branco Aires]

Problem:
Emacs+Auctex doesn't work properly in KDE (or more precisely kwin).
Any access to the mini-buffer in auctex mode triggers window resize,
making it smaller.

Current work around:
There is a known workaround right now, which is to set kwin to disobey
geometry restrictions for emacs, in its advanced settings. But of
course most users will have no idea what to do when affected by this
strange behaviour.

Related:
KDE bug report (set to RESOLVED FIXED of KDE's end).
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252314

J.A.

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In GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.7)
 of 2011-10-30 on build17
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11004000
configured using `configure  '--with-pop' '--without-hesiod'
'--with-kerberos' '--with-kerberos5' '--with-xim'
'--enable-autodepend' '--prefix=/usr' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share'
'--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib'
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--with-x' '--with-sound' '--with-sync-input'
'--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png'
'--with-rsvg' '--with-dbus' '--without-gpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
'--x-includes=/usr/include' '--x-libraries=/usr/lib64:/usr/share/X11'
'--with-xft' '--with-libotf' '--with-m17n-flt'
'--build=x86_64-suse-linux' 'build_alias=x86_64-suse-linux'
'CFLAGS=-fmessage-length=0 -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
-fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g
-D_GNU_SOURCE -std=gnu89 -pipe -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-variable
-Wno-unused-label -Wno-unprototyped-calls -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
-DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=55000    -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=10000 '
'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O2 -Wl,--hash-size=65521''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x r e p o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Loading /home/jadrian/.cabal/share/Agda-2.3.0.1/emacs-mode/agda2.el
(source)...done
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskellmode-emacs/haskell-site-file.el
(source)...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ruby-mode hides
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode

Features:
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backquote make-network-process dbusbind system-font-setting
font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)