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Extra empty space at bottom of frame under Xfce, athena toolkit

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Extra empty space at bottom of frame under Xfce, athena toolkit
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:26:16 -0500

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Package: emacs
Severity: minor
Version: 24.0.91

If I build Emacs using --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-toolkit-scroll-bars,
then on GNU/Linux (Debian testing) using the Xfce (4.8) window manager,
with emacs -q --no-site-file (or -Q, so that X resources are ignored),
there is extra blank space at the bottom of graphical frames. It looks
to be about half a line high, and has no scroll-bar or fringe
(screenshot attached). Resizing the frame does not make it go away.

This occurs with 23.2 onwards, but not with 22.3 or 23.1. It does not
occur with a Gtk toolkit build of any version. It does not occur in a
Gnome 3 or Window Maker session, ie seems to be specific to Xfce.

[emacs_xfce4.png (image/png, attachment)]

[emacs-23.1.png (image/png, attachment)]

Message #6 received at 10104 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10104 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10104: Extra empty space at bottom of frame under Xfce,
	athena toolkit
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:55:04 +0100

Hello.

22 nov 2011 kl. 09:26 skrev Glenn Morris:

> Package: emacs
> Severity: minor
> Version: 24.0.91
> 
> If I build Emacs using --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-toolkit-scroll-bars,
> then on GNU/Linux (Debian testing) using the Xfce (4.8) window manager,
> with emacs -q --no-site-file (or -Q, so that X resources are ignored),
> there is extra blank space at the bottom of graphical frames. It looks
> to be about half a line high, and has no scroll-bar or fringe
> (screenshot attached). Resizing the frame does not make it go away.
> 
> This occurs with 23.2 onwards, but not with 22.3 or 23.1. It does not
> occur with a Gtk toolkit build of any version. It does not occur in a
> Gnome 3 or Window Maker session, ie seems to be specific to Xfce.
> 
> <emacs_xfce4.png><emacs-23.1.png>

I can't repeat this.  What is your default font.
Also, those colors are not the Emacs defaults, so how do you get them when starting with -Q?

	Jan D.

Message #9 received at 10104 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: 10104 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10104: Extra empty space at bottom of frame under Xfce,
	athena toolkit
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:35:38 -0500

Jan Djärv wrote:

> I can't repeat this.  What is your default font.
> Also, those colors are not the Emacs defaults, so how do you get them
> when starting with -Q?

Sorry; I was using -fg white -bg black for illustration because I
thought it made the issue easier to see. The menu-bar colour came from
X resources, which are not ignored with -Q for Lucid properties.

This prompted me to check my X resources, and it turns out the issue is
caused by:

Emacs.pane.menubar.margin: 3

Using anything other than 1 here gives me the extra space at the bottom
of the frame. The font does not seem to matter. It happens with both the
system default
xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 

and my normal
x:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-1

Message #14 received at 10104-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10104-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10104: Extra empty space at bottom of frame under Xfce,
	athena toolkit
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 20:18:11 +0100

Hello.

30 nov 2011 kl. 08:35 skrev Glenn Morris:

> Jan Djärv wrote:
> 
>> I can't repeat this.  What is your default font.
>> Also, those colors are not the Emacs defaults, so how do you get them
>> when starting with -Q?
> 
> Sorry; I was using -fg white -bg black for illustration because I
> thought it made the issue easier to see. The menu-bar colour came from
> X resources, which are not ignored with -Q for Lucid properties.
> 
> This prompted me to check my X resources, and it turns out the issue is
> caused by:
> 
> Emacs.pane.menubar.margin: 3
> 
> Using anything other than 1 here gives me the extra space at the bottom
> of the frame. The font does not seem to matter. It happens with both the
> system default
> xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 
> 
> and my normal
> x:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-1

I still can't repeat it at startup, but I see it after I resize the Emacs frame.
I have checked in a fix for that, hopefully it cures your problem as well, I'm sure they are the same bug.
Please try it.

Thanks,

	Jan D.

Message #17 received at 10104 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: 10104 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10104: Extra empty space at bottom of frame under Xfce,
	athena toolkit
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:02:38 -0500

Thanks, it works for me.

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