From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lex Fridman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Spanning Dual Monitors Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 12:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <17166969.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <17129296.post@talk.nabble.com> <87d4nwaqgx.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210449478 28178 80.91.229.12 (10 May 2008 19:57:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:57:58 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 10 21:58:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JuvDF-0001B2-DI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 May 2008 21:58:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40112 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JuvCW-00061k-WA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 May 2008 15:57:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JuvCG-00061D-DE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 May 2008 15:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JuvCE-0005xj-00 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 May 2008 15:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50233 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JuvCD-0005xg-Qo for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 May 2008 15:57:29 -0400 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:46735) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JuvCD-0005iN-Bc for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 May 2008 15:57:29 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JuvCB-0008Pk-AJ for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 May 2008 12:57:27 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87d4nwaqgx.fsf@gmail.com> X-Nabble-From: lexfridman@gmail.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53890 Archived-At: Niels Giesen wrote: > > Use C-x 5 o (M-x other-frame) to select another frame. This shortcircuits > any window managers ALT-TAB rings. > Excellent idea. Although I knew of this solution, it didn't occur to me that this is really what I was looking for: a way to switch between frames outside the Alt-Tab interface which goes through all windows. Niels Giesen wrote: > > On the subject of using a single frame, you can use a prefix argument to > specify the width of the left buffer in columns. I think you have to find > out your width yourself. So if your left screen has room for 138 columns, > and your right one 178, do C-u 138 C-x 3 from your initial single-window > frame. (Just type M-: (window-width) RET to find out the proper width when > you have adjusted > manually). > Very precise description. A great alternative solution. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Emacs-Spanning-Dual-Monitors-tp17129296p17166969.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.