From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Carbon frame dimensions Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:33:49 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FCCCCFD.7020005@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070389877 15381 80.91.224.253 (2 Dec 2003 18:31:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 02 19:31:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARFIo-0005qD-00 for ; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:31:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARGFw-0001zz-6m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:32:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1070386431 71158375 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118914 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14857 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14857 Matthew Calhoun wrote: > I'm using Carbon Emacs 21.3.50.1. I have the lines > > (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 148) > (height . 54))) > (setq initial-frame-alist '((top . 10) > (left . 230))) > > in my .emacs, which make a nice big Emacs frame on the right side of the > screen... eventually. As Emacs starts up, the frame appears first on the > left side of the screen, then it shrinks a little, then it shrinks some > more, then it finally goes to the position and dimensions I specified. > What I would like to know is where those other position/dimensions are > specified, and whether I can change them. I'm trying to eliminate all of > that jumping around of the frame. Does Carbon support X resources? If so, you could specify those frame parameters in your ~/.Xdefaults file: emacs.geometry: 148x54+230+10 Or you could specify the geometry on the command line: emacs --geometry=148x54+230+10 emacs --xrm=emacs.geometry:148x54+230+10 -- Kevin Rodgers