Re: gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/Fullscreen-mode-on-MS_002dWindows.html

[David Hedlund <public@beloved.name>]

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On 04/04/2023 21:20, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 21:11:39 +0200
>> From: David Hedlund<public@beloved.name>
>>
>> From
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/Fullscreen-mode-on-MS_002dWindows.html
>>
>> "To avoid the slightly distracting visual effect of Emacs starting with its default frame size and then growing
>> to fullscreen, you can add an ‘Emacs.Geometry’ entry to the Windows registry settings. See X Resources in
>> The GNU Emacs Manual.
>>
>> To compute the correct values for width and height, first maximize the Emacs frame and then evaluate
>> (frame-height) and (frame-width) with M-:."
>>
>> This could be added to
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/Fullscreen-mode-on-MS_002dWindows.html
>> to help the users to automatically compute the values with (display-pixel-width) and (display-pixel-height):
>>
>> (setq frame-resize-pixelwise t)
>>
>> (set-frame-position (selected-frame) 0 0)
>>
>> (set-frame-size (selected-frame) (display-pixel-width) (display-pixel-height) t)
> Thanks, but resizing a frame doesn't make it fullscreen, does it?
That's correct. This will only make it convenient to avoid the "/avoid 
the slightly distracting visual effect of Emacs starting with its 
default frame size and then growing//to fullscreen/" -
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/Fullscreen-mode-on-MS_002dWindows.html 
without having to "compute the correct values for width and height".


> Because the task bar stays on screen, and thus the frame cannot be as
> large as a full-screen frame you get when you press F11.  Right?

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