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

["Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>]

David Hedlund <public@beloved.name> writes:

> On 9/27/23 17:10, David Hedlund wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 9/27/23 17:07, David Hedlund wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/27/23 15:25, Emanuel Berg wrote:
>>>> David Hedlund wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> sudo apt install -y emacs wmctrl # Just press Enter during the
>>>>> "Postfix Configuration"
>>>>>
>>>>> tee ~/.emacs > /dev/null << 'EOF'
>>>>>
>>>>> (defun switch-full-screen ()
>>>>>         (interactive)
>>>>>         (shell-command "wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b toggle,fullscreen"))
>>>>>
>>>>> EOF
>>>> Yes, do that and then M-x switch-full-screen RET
>>>>
>>>> or just type
>>>>
>>>>    (shell-command "wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b toggle,fullscreen")
>>>>
>>>> and do C-x C-e for `eval-last-sexp'.
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't work?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, it works, I just expected the snippet from Emacs wiki to
>>> work out-of-the-box automatically. But I had to add: (add-hook
>>> 'after-init-hook 'switch-full-screen)  . Also, "toggle" is useless
>>> for wmctrl in this situation, so I replaced it with "add", and I
>>> replaced "fullscreen" with "maximized_horz,maximized_vert"
>>>
>>> Here's the final solution for X11 (Trisquel, Ubuntu MATE), but not
>>> for Wayland (Ubuntu):
>>> (defun switch-full-screen ()
>>>         (interactive)
>>>         (shell-command "wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,maximized_horz,maximized_vert"))
>>
>> Sorry, I forgot to add (add-hook 'after-init-hook
>> 'switch-full-screen). Here's everything:
>>
>>
>> (defun switch-full-screen ()
>>         (interactive)
>>         (shell-command "wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,maximized_horz,maximized_vert"))
>> (add-hook 'after-init-hook 'switch-full-screen)
>>
>>
> Sorry, I just found out that even if it's added to the top of
> ~/.emacs, this will not expand the buffer quickly like `emacs -mm` for
> a typical ~/.emacs that need to load a lot of stuff. It will not
> expand the buffer faster than
>
>     (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(fullscreen . maximized)) -- so
> it's a useless solution since it requires wmctrl
>
> Also, the wmctrl solution requires the package to be installed
>
Same for any other external solution such as  your recommended solution devilspie2.
>
> Right now the only way to automaticall and always quickly expand the
> buffer like `emacs -mm`, regardless the size of ~/.emacs, is to use
> devilspie2 solution that I added in the first post in this thread.
Call wmctrl hook in after-make-frame-functions.