xemacs not starting correctly--half the window is blank.

Previously, I wrote: Hello, I am running Slackware64 13.1 and XEmacs 21.4.22. XEmacs was working just fine for months. I installed E17 as the window manager instead of KDE 4.6.0. All Xwindows apps work fine, but not XEmacs. Sigh. A window comes up, has my XEmacs coloring and menus, but the right side of the window is white, say 40% of screen width wide, and %100 high. What is cut off is not the title bar (with minimize, maximize, and close), but everything below it, the menu (no help button on right) all text area, status bar at the bottom, and right end of minibuffer is just white. I can take screenshots or a 10 second video to show this if someone wants me too. It is repeatable every time. Give me an email address and I can send them to you. ----------- My son and I worked with the problem and found out some things. We renamed init.el to prevent it's loading, and the problem remained the same. We renamed custom.el and problem went away. So I commented out lines in custom.el till the problem line showed up. Below is my entire custom.el; the line that was causing the problem is the line starting with '(default... which specifies 4 things: Font foreground color background color point size of font. After experimentation, changing the point size of the font to 18 or 19 or 22 makes the problem go away. Changing back to point size 20 after starting with any other point size and point size 20 works fine for this session. Courier, 20 point IS a valid choice on the menu: [options][font size], though 22 point is not but works anyway. Changing fonts did not change the problem. We tried running just (redisplay-frame) by itself and the screen was still 40% white As a workaround for now, I added the following to the bottom of my init.el the following 3 lines: (custom-set-faces '(default ((t (:foreground "yellow" :background "black" :size "19pt"))) t)) (redisplay-frame) (custom-set-faces '(default ((t (:foreground "yellow" :background "black" :size "20pt"))) t)) And now it starts normally. Which is really odd. Is this a bug? a setting I don't have right? Does anybody know this is not a problem in version 25 beta? A separate problem: I also found that I can grab any of the 4 corners or top and bottom or top edges and resize the XEmacs window in E17, but cannot grab the left or right side to resize the window. Wonder why? Do I need to figure out how to enlarge the borders a few pixels or something? Steve Mitchell contents of my custom.el: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (custom-set-variables '(buffers-tab-max-size 10) '(gutter-buffers-tab-visible-p t)) (custom-set-faces '(default ((t (:family "Courier" :foreground "yellow" :background "black":size "20pt"))) t) ;<----comment out this line, and problem goes away. '(about-link-face ((((class color) (background light)) (:foreground "blue":underline t)))) '(buffers-tab ((t (:foreground "Black" :background "red"))) t) '(custom-comment-face ((((class grayscale color) (background light)) (:background "gray20")))) '(custom-comment-tag-face ((((class color) (background light)) (:foreground "blue")))) '(font-lock-comment-face ((((class color) (background light)) (:foreground "light blue")))) '(font-lock-function-name-face ((((class color) (background light)) (:foreground "red2")))) '(font-lock-keyword-face ((((class color) (background light)) (:foreground "red2")))) '(font-lock-string-face ((((class color) (background light)) (:foreground "salmon")))) '(highlight ((t (:background "" :bold t))) t) '(hyper-apropos-hyperlink ((((class color) (background light)) (:foreground "blue")))) '(paren-match ((t (:background "black" :bold t))) t)) (setq minibuffer-max-depth nil) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta