Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 111896
Can't maximize xemacs windows under metacity
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:34 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031010 Description of problem: I'm running xemacs under the gnome environment, with metacity as window manager. When I try to maximize the window, xemacs freeze. When I minimize the window it works again. The manual resizing of the window works normally. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): metacity-2.6.3-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run xemacs under the gnome environment 2.'click' the maximize windows Actual Results: xemacs hang Expected Results: The windows should be normally maximized Additional info:
I can reproduce this bug every time. If maximising is a habit for you, it's quite hard not to hit this bug over and over and over. And over again. I looked around a bit and found something related upstream: http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200312/msg00218.html
According to the upstream message it seems likely this a problem with metacity not following the Xt protocol: |I think this is the known bug where Metacity insists on maximizing to |the pixel, but XEmacs wants character cell sizes. For some reason, |the negotiation gets into a loop. Sometimes (if the hardware is not |too fast) the loop is visible as flickering in the upper-right corner. | |I tend to suspect that Metacity is not putting its foot down and |saying "this is your geometry---live with it", which is what the |parent window is supposed to do. I'm pretty sure that XEmacs does its |geometry negotiation properly according to Xt standards; I know that |GNOME basically does not care if non-GNOME applications work (that is, |it's definitely a secondary priority and in practice it rarely gets |much attention). I think if you use the GNOME build it will work |fine. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111225 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.