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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Window too big
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 04:09:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ziyv7p8z.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <muv7iq$82v$1@ger.gmane.org> (Hendrik Boom's message of "Tue, 6 Oct 2015 01:19:22 +0000 (UTC)")

Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> writes:

> When I start emacs from the menu in xcfe, it always is slightly taller
> than my screen.  I have to mouse around and make it smaller before it
> is usable.  Is there something I can put, say, in my ~/.emacs file to
> change how tall it is?

Dunno why this happens in your case, maybe the cause is outside Emacs.

From within Emacs: of course can you control the default frame sizes.
Have a look at

   (info "(emacs) Frame Parameters")

You want to configure `default-frame-alist'.


Michael.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-03  3:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-06  1:19 Window too big Hendrik Boom
2015-10-06  1:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-11-02 14:26   ` Hendrik Boom
2015-11-03  2:39     ` Emanuel Berg
2015-11-09 20:25   ` Hendrik Boom
2015-11-09 20:44     ` Random832
2015-11-10  1:33       ` Emanuel Berg
2015-11-03  3:09 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.485.1444094378.16064.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-06 14:42 ` J G Miller
2015-10-07  9:42   ` Michael Heerdegen
     [not found]   ` <mailman.46.1444210988.916.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-07 12:29     ` J G Miller
2015-11-10  2:06 ` Dan Espen

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