From: Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Window too big
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 20:25:43 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n1qvg7$cpb$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bnccsrqj.fsf@debian.uxu
On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 03:36:20 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> 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?
>
> If you don't start Emacs from the menu in xcfe, but open a terminal
> emulator window (e.g., xterm) and type 'emacs', you can append options
> that will allow you to easily fine tune what should happen. I'm sure you
> can modify the menu item to encompass such options, but at least in the
> experimentation phase, and actually every time else as well, it is
> faster, and more powerful, to do it from a command interpreter. Anyway,
> here are some of the options you wish to examine - do
>
> $ man emacs
>
> for more!
>
> -fh, --fullheight
> Make the first frame as high as the screen.
Someone must be lying to it about how big the screen is. When I use -fh,
the main edit buffer just fits on the screen, the status line and the
place you type filenames to edit does not.
I should try again with a different window manager, see if that makes a
difference.
-- hendrik
-- hendrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-09 20:25 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 [this message]
2015-11-09 20:44 ` Random832
2015-11-10 1:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-11-03 3:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
[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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