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bug#10920: 24.0.93; Poor response to display size changes
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Jan Djärv |
Subject: |
bug#10920: 24.0.93; Poor response to display size changes |
Date: |
Mon, 9 Apr 2012 12:05:06 +0200 |
Hello.
I made a fix for bug 10962 that might have impact on this buf as well, as it
incolves screen constraints. Can you try it? It is currently in the emacs-24
branch, but I guess it will propagate to the trunk.
Thanks,
Jan D.
3 mar 2012 kl. 20:08 skrev Dave Abrahams:
>
> on Sat Mar 03 2012, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d-AT-swipnet.se> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> 3 mar 2012 kl. 16:48 skrev Dave Abrahams:
>>
>>>
>>> on Sat Mar 03 2012, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d-AT-swipnet.se> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> 1 mar 2012 kl. 15:56 skrev Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems to me:
>>>>>
>>>>> * When the display size changes, any visible frames that aren't completely
>>>>> visible should be moved/resised so they are
>>>>
>>>> This is not as easy as it seems. If you have Emacs spanning several
>>>> monitors and one of them changes it is not obvious what to do. One
>>>> could special case it for the single monitor case I guess.
>>>
>>> It may have not been easy 15-20 years ago, but today it is a solved
>>> problem. Many other applications have worked out ways to deal with such
>>> changes. Emacs could simply emulate one of those.
>>
>> Can you give an example of an application that behaves sane when
>> spread out over four monitors and one of them changes?
>
> I don't have four monitors, so no. But IMO that's not the common case
> anyway. The common case is when a laptop is plugged/unplugged from a
> single or multi-monitor setup.
>
>>>>> * The same goes for "fullscreen" (which IIUC is only supported via a
>>>>> patch that lives outside emacs, but I mention it here for
>>>>> completeness).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The 10.7 style fullscreen does not have this problem, which is an
>>>> argument for just supporting that type of fullscreen in 24.2.
>>>
>>> Not really, IMO. On the mac there's a green button in the upper left of
>>> every application window that maximizes it. You have to respond to that
>>> button somehow and maximizing the frame is the right (and consistent)
>>> response.
>>
>> Maximizing and fullscreen is not the same thing.
>
> I know. I thought you were arguing for trying to handle this deficiency
> in Emacs' handling of maximized (and other) frames by ignoring it and
> telling people to use fullscreen instead.
>
> By the way, 10.7-style fullscreen is incredibly frustrating for someone
> like me who wants to use all of one screen for Emacs but doesn't want
> his other monitors to go to waste. 10.7 will just put a gray background
> on the other screens and they become unusable :(
>
> --
> Dave Abrahams
> BoostPro Computing
> http://www.boostpro.com