Comment 12 for bug 159348

While trying to track down some other window sizing bug in eog, I came across this bugreport.

When eog is started with a file argument (e.g. doubleclick on an image in nautilus), the window size is calculated in eog-window.c:eog_window_obtain_desired_size(). Fortunately, this function has some debugging facilities in there that you can turn on by setting the EOG_DEBUG_WINDOW environment variable:

    $ export EOG_DEBUG_WINDOW=
    $ eog <some_picture.jpg> |grep eog_window_obtain_desired_size
    [0.187326 (0.001043)] eog-window.c:1308 (eog_window_obtain_desired_size) Setting window size: 1080 x 934

The reported window size will be in turn passed to gtk_window_set_default_size(). I have run the above command while running metacity and while running compiz, and got the same size in both cases. However, metacity has noticed that the vertical resolution is larger than the available, and made the eog window smaller, accordingly. OTOH, compiz has just set the supplied window size, making the eog window larger than my screen (at least vertically).

Note, that if you omit the |grep from the above command, you get a lot more debug output. I glanced through it quickly, but have not spotted any difference between the runs under metacity and compiz. But nonetheless, I might have missed something relevant in there.

All of this is under hardy rc, with last update being today morning.