Re: Emacs's set-frame-size can not work well with gnome-shell?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07.04.2020 11:33, martin rudalics wrote:
>  > Do you want to write a "here's what we ended up doing" comment for 
> the GNOME bug tracker?
>
> I can try to do that.  Here GNOME shell meanwhile has decided to ignore
> all my earlier customizations and all it allows me to do is to start
> applications via my keyboard shortcuts.

Not sure what to tell you. I've been a fairly satisfied GNOME user for 
the past year, and a user of Unity before that. The upcoming LTS release 
of Ubuntu (and GNOME release that comes with it) should be especially 
good/snappy/probably-even-stable.

But you likely have some particular requirements that I don't.

> GNOME shell really doesn't like me and I'm afraid that it will
> get even more insulted if I told its bug
> tracker about what I did to its child frame handling.

Maybe that will earn its respect instead.

>  > If the fact that we had to use a legacy function doesn't spur anybody
>  > to action, I don't know what could.
>
> I strongly doubt that.  IIUC we do that all the time, at least with
> GTK-3.  One day all this will break down on us.

But we're never too vocal about it. :-)