Something has changed in about the last month with respect to
default-toolbar-position and the size of the initial frame.
In 21.4, if you customize default-toolbar-position to 'left, it lies to
the window manager at first. It tells it that it is creating a frame of
width 80, but computes the pixel width assuming that the toolbar is at
the top. Even after the frame has been created, XEmacs continues
telling the window manager that the frame has a width of 80. It is only
after the frame has been resized in the *vertical* direction that XEmacs
suddenly changes its mind about the horizontal width and admits that it
is only 76 or so.
In 21.5, for the last several months, it would map the initial frame
with the wrong width, just like in 21.4, but then about the time the
scrollbars got drawn, it would redraw the frame with the correct width.
I haven't built a new 21.5 for a few weeks, so I don't know when this
changed, but today 21.5 is acting like 21.4 again. Does anybody know
what might have changed? Is this a known problem?
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Jerry James
http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~james/