From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can't maximize emacs at startup Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:05:03 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291823396 32149 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 15:49:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:49:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 16:49:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQMH3-0007hT-JU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:49:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48881 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQMH2-0005dm-Ri for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:49:44 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 9dWwA5J+8mNUFhGn2cvi2gtnPZZPvT+IAnFKrFMzwHxV6IsJfc Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZTU0NTI3MTE3YWUyM2M5ZDA4MDNjZmVjOGMyNzUxZDhkNjZmMWY5Yw== sha1:Ec1Jjwr7CuhS3Vb1uY+osX0inGA= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/23.1 (darwin) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178443 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:75562 Archived-At: Jean Felder writes: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm currently using emacs 23.2 on debian sid. > > I like starting emacs maximized using a trick from fvwm > ( http://fvwmwiki.xteddy.org/cookbook/#index3h2 ) > This feature works fine with emacs 23.1 . > However, since I've upgraded from emacs 23.1 to 23.2, it doesn't work > anymore : emacs doesn't start maximized. > > In fact, I'm launching emacs daemon at startup with the command "emacs --daemon" > Then, I'm using "emacsclient -c" > The first time, I'm using emacsclient, the window is launched but not maximized. > The second time, everything works fine : the second window is maximized. > > It seems that the first time, the window size is reset. Is this some > kind of side effect > from a change from 23.1 to 23.2 ? > > Does anyone have any ideas ? Emacs itself sets its frame size, from the default-frame-alist. And you may have a set-frame-size form in your ~/.emacs file. Actually, my solution is to use ratpoison (or a similar window manager). Then I don't have to bother with window sizes anymore. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com