From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hendrik Boom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Window too big Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 20:25:43 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87bnccsrqj.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447100794 21210 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2015 20:26:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 20:26:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 09 21:26:26 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvt1C-0005ln-EM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 21:26:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55412 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvt1B-0005Gi-LV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:26:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58594) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvt0z-0005Gb-76 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:26:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvt0u-0007Hy-8n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:26:09 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37689) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvt0u-0007Ho-1y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:26:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvt0p-0005TL-5l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 21:25:59 +0100 Original-Received: from bas19-montreal02-1279363830.dsl.bell.ca ([76.65.138.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 21:25:59 +0100 Original-Received: from hendrik by bas19-montreal02-1279363830.dsl.bell.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 21:25:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bas19-montreal02-1279363830.dsl.bell.ca User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108011 Archived-At: On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 03:36:20 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Hendrik Boom 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