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Re: 23.0.60; Odd behavior of maximized windows
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David Abrahams |
Subject: |
Re: 23.0.60; Odd behavior of maximized windows |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:43:26 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) |
Jan Djärv wrote:
>
>> Jan Djärv wrote:
>>>
>>> David Abrahams skrev:
>>>> on Sun Mar 30 2008, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d-AT-swipnet.se> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I also run Emerald, Gnome, Compiz and alse see Emerald crashes. I
>>>>> don't have
>>>>> maximized Emacs:es. But I see that sometimes compiz maximizes
>>>>> windows by
>>>>> itself when the become "too large" (exactly what that means I don't
>>>>> know).
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have other maximized windows that don't cover the entire
>>>>> screen after a
>>>>> restart?
>>>> Yes.
>>>>
>>>>> Window manager decorations is really up to the window manager, Emacs
>>>>> doesn't do anything about this by itself.
>>>> I figured as much, but it must be doing something differently from,
>>>> e.g., Thunderbird, or I wouldn't be seeing this effect.
>>>>
>>> I will run some tests. I guess there is some property one should set
>>> which Emacs doesn't. Stay tuned...
>
> I have run several tests and killed Emerald manually, but my Emacs
> always comes back with window decorations.
>
> When Emacs is maximized, the window manager sets _NET_WM_STATE, usually to
> _NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_VERT, _NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_HORZ.
>
> When it is restarted it shall look at the NET_WM_STATE and restore it as
> it was before the crash. If WM_STATE is set to _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
> however, you would see the behaviour you are seeing.
>
> Can you do
> % xprop | grep NET_WM_STATE
>
> and then click in the maximized Emacs window? What is the output?
_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_VERT,
_NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_HORZ
> Do you know what version of Emerald you have?
Here's the package info:
Package: emerald
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Installed-Size: 956
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <address@hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Nicholas Thomas <address@hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.3~git20070717-0ubuntu1
> If you run this with for
> example Metacity, do you see the same effect?
I don't know how to duplicate the dying window decorator effect with
Metacity, so it's hard to tell you.
Thanks again for going to such lengths on this one.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://boost-consulting.com