Modifying internal-border-width messes up UI

Question

When I am modifying the internal-border-width of the selected frame the "resizing" happens but for example the minibuffer and the modeline are not visible anymore. They are there but offscreen:

As you can see the borders are unbalanced and the buffer is "pushed" from the top left.

This is likely to be window manager related (bspwm in my case). Because when I for example full screen emacs after setting the internal border width everything looks as expected. Same when I open another application or anything like that which "repositions" and that causes a "redraw":

Can this be solved from within my .emacs.d or do I need to look in my window manager or somewhere else?

Answer 1

Found the solution: If you modify certain aspects of Emacs geometry (in my case internal-border-width and it does not seem to be respected by the window system, try putting your settings also in .Xdefaults or .Xresources (I think the latter is preferred nowadays).

See this link for more on this http://www.linux-france.org/article/appli/emacs/manuel/html/resources-x.html