Re: X window display bug?

[Jan Djärv]

linbo skrev:
> Jan Dj�rv <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Bo Lin skrev:
>>> Hi emacs-devel,
>>>
>>> I'm getting weird GUI behavior when compiling the latest CVS code
>>> (actually I use git to pull from git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git).
>>> Attached is a screen shot of what it (started with emacs -Q) looks like.
>>> As you can see, the left and right margins are unusually large, I can't
>>> `split-window-horizontally' because "Window width 7 too small (after
>>> splitting)", and the number returned by `window-width' is clearly wrong.
>>> This behavior has been around for at least two months (it has been like
>>> this ever since I started trying to compile emacs23). Any suggestions?
>> Can you post the commands you use to get to the state in the picture?
>>
>>      Jan D.
> 
> # emacs -Q
>   (emacs starts up with no errors, but margins are unusually big)
> 
> Ctrl-x 3
> 
> Then in *scratch*:
> 
> (window-width (selected-window)) Ctrl-J
> 
> Then click on mini-buffer to bring up *Messages*.
> 
> That's all.

There must be more to it, for example, why are your margins so big?  Can you
check /etc/X11/app-defaults (or /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults) if there is any
Emacs or EMacs file in there?  Also do
% xrdb -query |grep -i emacs
and see if you get any lines.  Let us know what you find.

        Jan D.