Re: Emacs's set-frame-size can not work well with gnome-shell?

[martin rudalics]

>> In
>> particular, a program like GNOME-shell that, as we've seen in
>> Bug#38452, seems to have its own interpretation of coordinates (I have
>> no idea what GNOME-shell is and does).
>
> I think resizing problem is not this reason.

Unless mutter decides that it may have to move the child frame because
resizing would clash with some of its internal positioning constraints.

>> Is it resizing only or moving the frame too?
>
> I think resizing only,  moving works well.

Does resizing fail always?  Even with 'frame-resize-pixelwise' non-nil
and shrinking or increasing an edge by one pixel only?

Please look also at the questions I asked Dmitry.

martin