From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Window too big Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 03:39:58 +0100 Message-ID: <871tc7olfl.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87bnccsrqj.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446517859 11673 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2015 02:30:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 02:30:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 03 03:30:44 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtRMw-0007OH-1F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 03:30:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45247 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtRMv-0003xD-Cr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:30:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53336) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtRMh-0003x5-5w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:30:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtRMc-00054s-5I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:30:27 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42857) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtRMb-00054i-Ue for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtRMZ-000758-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 03:30:19 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 03:30:19 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 03:30:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 57 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vH8EgFUJKUzwy361hF88Z9pIErk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107900 Archived-At: Hendrik Boom writes: > Should I conclude there is no way within emacs to > set the variable that control window size (or shoulf > I say, panel size?) There are windows in Emacs. For example, evaluate these: (split-window-vertically) (other-window 1) And you can get properties as data from those, e.g. with: (window-height) But, what you are talking about seems (?) to be the windows of the window manager of your window system (e.g., X) and/or desktop (e.g, GNOME, KDE). And those windows can be resized from outside of Emacs, and from within Emacs. > There does seem to be a way to request full-screen > mode, so there must be a way for emacs to determine > the screen size Indeed, you can use, as a CLI option -fs, --fullscreen Make the first frame fullscreen. or, in Emacs: (toggle-frame-fullscreen) Perhaps what you look for is: frame-pixel-height Function: Return a FRAME's height in pixels. frame-pixel-width Function: Return FRAME's width in pixels. ? > Or that emacs has the wrong default size for my > computer, or that xcfe has simply decided to > override them with the wrong values? I have no idea, but probably it is still easier to configure this "back" to what you want in Emacs, instead of messing with that. It is not like it is a costly operation :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573