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Emacs and display resolution change

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From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Emacs and display resolution change
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:32:31 +0100

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Hi,

The current Emacs trunk does not seem to honour display resolution change
under Windows.
There is one case where it is annoying: when the frame is fullsized.
I have a laptop. I run `emacs -Q' , then `M-x toggle-frame-fullscreen'.
Next I connect an external display with a higher resolution.
The frame displays undecorated, but with a size of the previous screen
resolution.
I need to call `M-x toggle-frame-fullscreen' twice to get back a fullsized
frame.

I think that for handling at least this case, the following patch could be
applied:

=== modified file 'src/w32term.c'
--- src/w32term.c       2014-01-06 17:22:52 +0000
+++ src/w32term.c       2014-01-22 05:49:45 +0000
@@ -4841,6 +4844,7 @@
          if (f)
            {
              dpyinfo->n_cbits = msg.msg.wParam;
+             x_check_fullscreen(f);
              DebPrint (("display change: %d %d\n",
                         (short) LOWORD (msg.msg.lParam),
                         (short) HIWORD (msg.msg.lParam)));

However I'm not sure of any possibly harmful side effects.

One thing I have observed is that if you start with a normal frame, lower
the resolution to some point where the y resolution is less than the height
of the frame, then the frame will become height-maximized. So if you raise
the resolution again, it will stay height-maximized.
I'm fine with that, but I'm not sure what users would expect. Memorizing
the frame geometry so that it will be restored in case of several
resolution change maybe more complex.

Apologies if I missed obvious points or ways to handle that.

Regards,

Fabrice Popineau

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 16517-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16517: Emacs and display resolution change
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:06:40 +0200

> From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:32:31 +0100
> 
> The current Emacs trunk does not seem to honour display resolution change
> under Windows.
> There is one case where it is annoying: when the frame is fullsized.
> I have a laptop. I run `emacs -Q' , then `M-x toggle-frame-fullscreen'.
> Next I connect an external display with a higher resolution.
> The frame displays undecorated, but with a size of the previous screen
> resolution.
> I need to call `M-x toggle-frame-fullscreen' twice to get back a fullsized
> frame.
> 
> I think that for handling at least this case, the following patch could be
> applied:

No comments, so I applied your patch.  Thanks.

Message #13 received at 16517-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 16517-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16517: Emacs and display resolution change
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 14:17:51 +0100

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Thanks. It seems harmless for those who don't need it and helps a lot the
others (like me!).

Fabrice


2014-01-25 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

> > From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:32:31 +0100
> >
> > The current Emacs trunk does not seem to honour display resolution change
> > under Windows.
> > There is one case where it is annoying: when the frame is fullsized.
> > I have a laptop. I run `emacs -Q' , then `M-x toggle-frame-fullscreen'.
> > Next I connect an external display with a higher resolution.
> > The frame displays undecorated, but with a size of the previous screen
> > resolution.
> > I need to call `M-x toggle-frame-fullscreen' twice to get back a
> fullsized
> > frame.
> >
> > I think that for handling at least this case, the following patch could
> be
> > applied:
>
> No comments, so I applied your patch.  Thanks.
>

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