Re: Geometry ignored in Emacs 23.1.91 on OpenSUSE 11.2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:24:20 -0500
> From: Steve Revilak <steve@srevilak.net>
> 
>    GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.1) of 2009-12-31
> 
> I've run into one problem that I can't seem to work around: emacs
> doesn't seem to pay attention to certain elements on the geometry
> specification.  For example
> 
>    emacs -Q --geometry 99x40-0-0
> 
> Creates a frame with a width of 99, but a height of 25 (not 40).

Does it work without -Q (and with an empty ~/.emacs file)?

The handling of -Q has changed in v23.2 (see NEWS), so perhaps this
bug is a side effect.

In any case, a proper way of reporting a bug in a pretest is with
"M-x report-emacs-bug RET".

Thanks.