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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 17.02.2020 20:20, martin rudalics wrote:
>  > Indeed, it does *something*, but not the intended effect yet:
>  > apparently the window as seen by WM is extended by the Emacs child
>                                                 ^ but? ^
>
>  > frame is not (similar to what we had using one of the intermediary
>  > patches).
>
> Does shrinking work in the sense that the internal borders of the child
> frame are redrawn?
>
>  > So it looks like the child frame is not enlarged, but e.g. clicks on
>  > the area that should have been added to it don't go through to the
>  > frame below it.
>
> Sounds good, but how comes that we apparently now we do not get the
> ConfigureNotify we got before?  Basically, this new patch is
> use_gdk_resize.diff with an initial child frame of 1000x1000 pixels
> size.  Did you set 'x-resize-child-frame-special' to t?

I... no. I only changed the value of this variable (locally or globally) 
after the frame was created.