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Re: emacs and awesome
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henry atting |
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Re: emacs and awesome |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 15:43:54 -0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Mi, Mär 31 2010, despen@verizon.net wrote:
> henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> writes:
>
>> Some time ago I used awesome as my window manager but then switched to
>> xmonad for I wanted not to deal with lua. Now I gave awesome another
>> try and as everything works fine `out of the box` I maybe replace
>> xmonad with awesome again.
>>
>> I know some people in this group use awesome as well so I put my
>> question here (I found the awesome community too elite for someone
>> like me, unwilling to learn lua)
>>
>> Okay, when I set emacs to fullscreen, at the bottom of the screen
>> always remains a small gap. No other programm shows this behaviour,
>> so maybe it's an emacs problem.
>>
>> There is an option, `c.honorsizehints = true', but this does not
>> change anything. AFAIK it only handles the gap *between* windows.
>>
>> I'm thankful for any hint.
>
> Hint is the right word.
> Use the xprop command to take a look at the size hints on an Emacs
> window, here are mine:
>
> WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
> program specified minimum size: 40 by 40
> program specified resize increment: 10 by 20
> program specified base size: 20 by 0
> window gravity: NorthWest
>
>
> So, Emacs is telling the window manager that when Emacs is resized,
> it wants to be resized in multiples of 10x20 pixels.
>
> Hence the gap you see.
>
> If the WM supports what you want, it would be more like
> honorsizehints=false.
Yes, it's `false`
The method to do this has changed since I used awesome the last time;
for anyone who runs into the same problem, see here:
http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/FAQ#How_to_remove_gaps_between_windows.3F
thanks!;
henry
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