bug#31626: Emacs window resizes when entering dired mode

[Alain Knaff]

On 2018-05-28 15:02, Alain Knaff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Whenever I enter dired mode, the emacs window resizes itself. This is
> undesirable, as windows that jump around interrupt the flow of work.
> 
> It happens with Gnu Emacs 25.2.2 as included on Ubuntu 18.04
> 
> It did not happen with the version included with Ubuntu 16.04
> 
> Thanks for fixing this,>

I noticed that when this happens, the following is printed to stdout:
gtk_distribute_natural_allocation: assertion 'extra_space >= 0' failed

The same is also printed when manually making the window narrower again,
or changing its width in any way while it is narrower than the width
dired wants.

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