Re: Weird problem with inital frame sizing

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:50:05 -0400 Noam Postavsky
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12 September 2018 at 10:37, Perry E. Metzger
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Thinking that this might be some sort of weird race condition
> > during initialization, I put a "(sleep-for 1)" into my .emacs
> > just before the code that sets everything, i.e., before all my
> > "set-face-attribute" and "default-frame-alist" manipulation. When
> > I do this, the frame pops up in its initial size and
> > configuration, and then after the sleep ends, the size of the
> > default frame adjusts and is consistently correct.
> >
> > Can anyone guess what might be going wrong, and how we might fix
> > this correctly?  
> 
> Does changing x-wait-for-event-timeout help (or hurt)?
> 
> Possibly doing your manipulation in after-make-frame-functions would
> be the correct fix.

It would seem to me that requiring users to change their default font
in that way rather than just in their .emacs file is a bit
heavyweight. It's certainly not documented, and hasn't always been
needed in the past...

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger                address@hidden