bug#24144: 25.1.50; window contents aren't resized when window is resized by creation/removal of windows in i3wm

[Michael Rose]

Built without Cairo the problem isn't present so what are the negatives of doing without Cairo? 

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016, 10:59 AM martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:

 > The environment is funtoo current which is substantially similar to
 > gentoo current.  Window manager is i3wm, no de.  Emacs is running in daemon mode, but bug manifests when
 > run normally as well. Essentially when an emacs window is created the
 > text doesn't take up the entire window.  Manually resizing the window by
 > toggling fullscreen fixes this.  However creating another window in the
 > workspace and then removing it will leave the emacs window in the same
 > state where the text contained therein doesn't fill the remaining space
 > that was formerly occupied by the now removed window.
 >
 > Importantly this behavior isn't observed in emacs 24.
 >
 >
 > In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.16.7, cairo version 1.14.6)
 >   of 2016-06-17 built on michael-desktop

Can you try building without cairo?

Thanks, martin