Re: 23.0.60; Odd behavior of maximized windows

[Jan Djärv]

David Abrahams skrev:
> Jan Djärv wrote:
> > > Jan Djärv wrote:
> > > > David Abrahams skrev:
> > > > > on Sun Mar 30 2008, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d-AT-swipnet.se> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I also run Emerald, Gnome, Compiz and alse see Emerald crashes.  I
> > > > > > don't have
> > > > > > maximized Emacs:es.  But I see that sometimes compiz maximizes
> > > > > > windows by
> > > > > > itself when the become "too large" (exactly what that means I don't
> > > > > > know).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Do you have other maximized windows that don't cover the entire
> > > > > > screen after a
> > > > > > restart?  
> > > > > Yes.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Window manager decorations is really up to the window manager, Emacs
> > > > > > doesn't do anything about this by itself.
> > > > > I figured as much, but it must be doing something differently from,
> > > > > e.g., Thunderbird, or I wouldn't be seeing this effect.
> > > > I will run some tests.  I guess there is some property one should set
> > > > which Emacs doesn't.  Stay tuned...
> > I have run several tests and killed Emerald manually, but my Emacs
> > always comes back with window decorations.
> >
> > When Emacs is maximized, the window manager sets _NET_WM_STATE, usually to
> >  _NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_VERT, _NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_HORZ.
> >
> > When it is restarted it shall look at the NET_WM_STATE and restore it as
> > it was before the crash.  If WM_STATE is set to _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
> > however, you would see the behaviour you are seeing.
> >
> > Can you do
> > % xprop | grep NET_WM_STATE
> >
> > and then click in the maximized Emacs window?  What is the output?
>
> _NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_VERT,
> _NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_HORZ
>
> > Do you know what version of Emerald you have?  
>
> Here's the package info:
>
>   Package: emerald
>   Priority: optional
>   Section: universe/x11
>   Installed-Size: 956
>   Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <address@hidden>
>   Original-Maintainer: Nicholas Thomas <address@hidden>
>   Architecture: i386
>   Version: 0.3~git20070717-0ubuntu1

Hmm, Ubuntu, I'm on a Fedora system.  I'll try on Ubuntu also.

> > If you run this with for
> > example Metacity, do you see the same effect?
>
> I don't know how to duplicate the dying window decorator effect with
> Metacity, so it's hard to tell you.

I think it is enough to run metacity -replace in a shell.

        Jan D.