Re: Solution to a proposed FAQ, how to maximize emacs quickly (like `emacs --maximize`) for GNU/Linux

[David Hedlund <public@beloved.name>]

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On 2023-09-28 22:05, chad wrote:
> Apologies for joining late, and perhaps you have already tried and 
> discounted this approach, but: Have you tried adding:
>
>     (push '(fullscreen . maximized) default-frame-alist)
>
>
> or perhaps
>
>     (push '(fullscreen . maximized) initial-frame-alist) 
>
>
> to early-init? I put the first above line in ~/.emacs.d/early-init.el, 
> and got an initially maximized window under an odd Wayland+XWayland 
> system as well as Win 11. I don't have reasonable access to either a 
> more typical X11, Wayland, or macOS system right now.
>
> The key is to put it in early-init.el, which is consulted before emacs 
> makes any windows in any window system. Also worth noting: if you end 
> up with conflicting elisp settings and X resources, there are a 
> variety of ways for the latter to silently override the former. You 
> can check this with "xrdb -query" (you might want to run this in a 
> shell buffer or pipe it to a pager).
>
> Hope this helps,
> ~Chad
>
Wouldn't it be useful to write some lisp that could automatically 
generate ~/.emacs.d/early-init.el from .emacs?:

* Check if ~/.emacs.d/early-init.el contains:

     (push '(fullscreen . maximized) default-frame-alist)

* If ~/.emacs.d/early-init.el does

   * not exist

   * exist but does not contain the above code

   then:

     * add the above code to ~/.emacs.d/early-init.el

     * restart emacs or send a message to the minibuffer that it must be 
restarted in order for the setting to take effect.


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