From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Window size specification ignored Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:35:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <%QXUe.146063$dP1.502629@newsc.telia.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126481835 2748 80.91.229.2 (11 Sep 2005 23:37:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 12 01:37:07 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEbNO-0001tk-Gz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:36:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEbNN-0006OV-UM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EEbMf-0006Eb-DT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:36:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EEbMa-0006B5-VP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:35:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEbMa-0006Ar-Eb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:35:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.226] (helo=smtp08.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EEbMz-0003Hw-0J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.245.189.6] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.105 #314) id 1EEbMS-0002DQ-00; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:35:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: August Karlstrom X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de 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:29405 Archived-At: Am 12.09.2005 um 00:48 schrieb August Karlstrom: > If I invoke > > $ /usr/bin/emacs > I wanted to make you try /usr/bin/emacs -q and /usr/bin/emacs -Q The latter method should launch GNU Emacs without loading *any* local Ubuntu customisation. If they launch differently, then you have a clue that some Ubuntu customisation file is causing the too big appearence. If they appear in both cases the same then there can be an X resource causing this. Check files like .xinitrc and .Xdefaults, and check the output of 'xrdb -query' too! Comment out lines in .xinitrc, the file that launches X11, which have to do with xrdb, log off, and log in again. Now you should have less X resources set. It's good use to launch an application by its path name -- but what when this path name is a script that launches the final application? It's not likely, but ps would reveal this. I have in Mac OS X these two aliases to check this: for csh family: alias PS "ps -lwwgx | egrep UID\|\!:1 | grep -v grep" for sh family: PS () { ps -lwwgx | egrep UID\|${1} | grep -v grep ; } In a shell you simply type 'PS emacs' and you get something like: pete 161 /\ PS emacs UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 501 4107 4094 0 31 0 53288 17432 - S ?? 7:10.04 /usr/local/bin/emacs-22.0.50 -geometry 85x45+18+240 501 26465 1 0 31 0 22728 536 - S ?? 0:00.01 -bin/tcsh -i -c /usr/local/bin/emacs-23.0.0 --debug-init -geometry 100x57+666+44 501 26470 26465 0 31 0 75008 39136 - R ?? 3:41.96 /usr/local/bin/emacs-23.0.0 --debug-init -geometry 100x57+666+44 -- Greetings Pete There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. - Jeremy S. Anderson