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Re: Can we make border width zero by default?
From: |
Chong Yidong |
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Re: Can we make border width zero by default? |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:41:36 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.95 (gnu/linux) |
Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:
> While looking into bug 5848, I experimented with border width (not
> internal border width). The default is currently 2 pixels. I'd like
> to set that to zero.
>
> The reasons are that some window managers (metacity at least)
> overrides this and sets zero anyway. Other window managers like
> compiz make the border on two sides transparent and black on the other
> two. Probably this is some effect applications can take advantage of,
> but for Emacs it just looks strange (see screen shot).
>
> For the Gtk+ port, border width has no effect, it can't be specified
> in Gtk+-functions and it is hardcoded to 0 in the Gtk+ code.
>
> Any thoughts?
Fine by me (for the trunk). I don't know the reasoning behind the
current 2px default.