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29.0.50; tab bar doesn't immediately show

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From: Dustin Lacewell <dlacewell <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.0.50; tab bar doesn't immediately show
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 13:15:02 -0600

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Evaluating (tab-bar-mode 1) after startup, the tab-bar does not immediately
appear. I must resize or bring some other (non-emacs) window in front of
emacs in order for it to (repaint? and) display.

I use a tiling window manager on Linux, not sure if that's relevant.

In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.30,
cairo version 1.16.0)
Repository revision: af729b1dfd235de400f6a0998a968222417596bf
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12013000
System Description: NixOS 22.05 (Quokka)

Configured using:
 'configure
 --prefix=/nix/store/qy1nhgarwvb43zz3yxfr1hhv2fbp868a-emacs-git-20220102.0
 --disable-build-details --with-modules --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft
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Message #8 received at 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dustin Lacewell <dlacewell <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52986: 29.0.50; tab bar doesn't immediately show
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 21:39:11 +0200

> From: Dustin Lacewell <dlacewell <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 13:15:02 -0600
> 
> Evaluating (tab-bar-mode 1) after startup, the tab-bar does not immediately appear. I must resize or bring
> some other (non-emacs) window in front of emacs in order for it to (repaint? and) display.

Not reproducible here.

> I use a tiling window manager on Linux, not sure if that's relevant.

It probably is.  Activating tab-bar-mode involves resizing the frame,
so the WM is involved.  If it doesn't feed us the events we expect, we
won't repaint the frame, I think.

Message #11 received at 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dustin Lacewell <dlacewell <at> gmail.com>, martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52986: 29.0.50; tab bar doesn't immediately show
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 22:04:23 +0200

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> From: Dustin Lacewell <dlacewell <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 13:57:40 -0600
> 
> Do you have any idea what the window manager needs to do? I can try to relay some advice upstream to the
> QTile project.

I think the ConfigureNotify event?  Martin, am I right?

Message #14 received at 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Dustin Lacewell <dlacewell <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52986: 29.0.50; tab bar doesn't immediately show
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 09:08:08 +0800

Dustin Lacewell <dlacewell <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I use a tiling window manager on Linux, not sure if that's relevant.

Can you tell us the value of:

  (frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen)

Immediately after startup?  Thanks.

I suspect Emacs is trying to resize the frame to accommodate the tab
bar, but the window manager isn't sending a ConfigureNotify event back
to Emacs.

IMO, tiling window managers should simply set
_NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_HORZ and _NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_VERT on all
windows, which avoids this problem completely, but they should at least
send a ConfigureNotify event to Emacs.

Which window manager are you using?

Thanks.

Message #17 received at 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Dustin Lacewell <dlacewell <at> gmail.com>, 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52986: 29.0.50; tab bar doesn't immediately show
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 09:51:09 +0100

> Evaluating (tab-bar-mode 1) after startup,

Maybe adding a (tab-bar-lines . 1) entry to 'default-frame-alist' would
be better.  To further improve things, you could try to do that in your
early-init file.

> the tab-bar does not immediately
> appear. I must resize or bring some other (non-emacs) window in front of
> emacs in order for it to (repaint? and) display.

Does this problem also happen when you toggle 'tab-bar-mode' later?
Does toggling the menu, tool or scroll bar suffer a similar problem?

> I use a tiling window manager on Linux, not sure if that's relevant.

With a tiling window manager, set 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' to t
unconditionally.  This should spare you lots of problems.

martin

Message #20 received at 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Dustin Lacewell <dlacewell <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52986: 29.0.50; tab bar doesn't immediately show
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 09:51:36 +0100

>> Do you have any idea what the window manager needs to do? I can try to relay some advice upstream to the
>> QTile project.
>
> I think the ConfigureNotify event?  Martin, am I right?

Yes.  Although IMHO the QTile people should not be bothered with one of
the silliest of our idiosyncrasies.

martin

Message #25 received at 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alex Griffin <a <at> ajgrf.com>
To: 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52986: 29.0.50; tab bar doesn't immediately show
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:02:35 +0000

I think I'm also hitting this issue just by docking Emacs to the side in
GNOME Shell. I've set 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' to t, but Emacs
still wants to resize the frame when initializing tab-bar-mode.

I'm currently using Emacs 29.0.50 for the new GTK/Wayland support, and I
don't see the same issue on Emacs 28.0.91.

Thanks,
--
Alex Griffin

Message #28 received at 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Alex Griffin <a <at> ajgrf.com>, 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52986: 29.0.50; tab bar doesn't immediately show
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 11:15:49 +0100

> I think I'm also hitting this issue just by docking Emacs to the side in
> GNOME Shell. I've set 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' to t, but Emacs
> still wants to resize the frame when initializing tab-bar-mode.

'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' defaults to '(tab-bar-lines) so you don't
even have to change its value.  What you see is the following: It's a
long established practice that people want their frames initially have
a specified number of lines, disregarding the height of things like the
tool or tab bar.  To do that, Emacs calculates the initial pixel height
of a GUI frame from the number of lines specified for it plus the pixel
heights of a tool and tab bar, if present.

Now the code that adds the latter ('x_change_tab_bar_height') uses two
boolean slots for each frame - tab_bar_resized and tab_bar_redisplayed -
both initially false.  The latter is set by the display engine in
redisplay_tab_bar to indicate that the tab bar has been redisplayed once
so its pixel height has been established.  The former is then set by
'x_change_tab_bar_height' from the latter.  As long as tab_bar_resized
has not been set for a specific frame, 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize'
has no effect - Emacs will ask the window manager to resize it.

> I'm currently using Emacs 29.0.50 for the new GTK/Wayland support, and I
> don't see the same issue on Emacs 28.0.91.

You should see it on Emacs 28.  Only if you start Emacs with tab bar
mode enabled initially you should not see it.

martin

Message #31 received at 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Dustin Lacewell <dlacewell <at> gmail.com>, 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52986: 29.0.50; tab bar doesn't immediately show
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:52:11 +0100

> Evaluating (tab-bar-mode 1) after startup, the tab-bar does not immediately
> appear. I must resize or bring some other (non-emacs) window in front of
> emacs in order for it to (repaint? and) display.
>
> I use a tiling window manager on Linux, not sure if that's relevant.

Please try again with most recent master.

Thanks, martin

Message #34 received at 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Alex Griffin <a <at> ajgrf.com>, 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52986: 29.0.50; tab bar doesn't immediately show
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:52:23 +0100

> I think I'm also hitting this issue just by docking Emacs to the side in
> GNOME Shell. I've set 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' to t, but Emacs
> still wants to resize the frame when initializing tab-bar-mode.
>
> I'm currently using Emacs 29.0.50 for the new GTK/Wayland support, and I
> don't see the same issue on Emacs 28.0.91.

I checked in a fix.  Please try again with most recent master.

Thanks, martin

Message #37 received at 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: Alex Griffin <a <at> ajgrf.com>, 52986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52986: 29.0.50; tab bar doesn't immediately show
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:22:21 +0100

martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> writes:

>> I'm currently using Emacs 29.0.50 for the new GTK/Wayland support, and I
>> don't see the same issue on Emacs 28.0.91.
>
> I checked in a fix.  Please try again with most recent master.

This was the final post in this bug thread (a month ago), so I assume
that it worked well, and I'm therefore closing this bug report.  If it's
still an issue, please respond to the debbugs address and we'll reopen.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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