From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: vls@m-net.arbornet.org (V. L. Simpson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shuddering initial frame, dump-emacs, source Date: 28 Feb 2004 09:23:04 -0600 Organization: Monster Island Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r7wfqld3.fsf@godzilla.localnet> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077982309 8856 80.91.224.253 (28 Feb 2004 15:31:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:31:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 28 16:31:44 2004 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 1Ax6RL-0000hU-00 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:31:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Ax6QU-0000Yx-Js for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:30:50 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!spooler1.hal-mli.net!news.hal-pc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.180.153.48.adsl.hal-pc.org Original-X-Trace: 1077981534 news.hal-pc.org 7049 206.180.153.48:1029 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@hal-pc.org Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121354 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:17308 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17308 >>>>> "Joe" == Joe Corneli writes: > The look of my emacs is pretty heavily customized (font, color, > absence of menubar, etc. are different from the standard > settings). When I load Emacs, it shudders and flashes > spasmodically as it transforms itself from the white background > with a small font and a menubar to the black background with a > large font and no menubar. I've considered running dump-emacs > (but I can't get it to work, can anyone?) - and other than that > I don't know how to change the style of the default frame. Is > there a way to change the load order so that Emacs never goes > into the small font, white background mode? Maybe I should > rebuild by hand? Any suggestions? What are people using to > deal with heavily customized emaces? You can set your options in .Xresources and then set the same options in your emacs init file using 'initial-frame-alist' variable. My setup follows: .Xresources ! emacs emacs*background: DarkBlue emacs*foreground: Wheat emacs.geometry: 80x55+70+10 emacs.font: "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" Emacs.MenuBar: off Emacs.ToolBar: 0 Emacs.ScrollBars: off Elisp code: (cond (window-system (setq initial-frame-alist '((top . 10) (left . 70) (width . 80) (height . 55) (font . "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"))) (setq default-frame-alist '((top . 5) (left . 55) (width . 80) (height . 25) (font . "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"))) (blink-cursor-mode -1) (auto-image-file-mode 1) (tool-bar-mode -1) (tooltip-mode -1) (mouse-avoidance-mode 'jump))) More details are in the manual. Look up frames and Xresources. Have fun, vls