Re: desktop height?

[Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk>]

>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Ingalls <bingalls.NO_SPAM@fit-zones.com> writes:

  Bruce> Does anyone know a way to calculate the height of the desktop
  Bruce> in elisp?

  Bruce> I'd like Emacs to start up with maximum height.  For that
  Bruce> matter, I'd like XEmacs, and various OSes to work.

  Bruce> In Linux X Window, the following works reasonably well:

  Bruce> (/ (- (x-display-pixel-height) 50) (frame-char-height)))

  Bruce> I can get reasonably close with

  Bruce> (/ (x-display-pixel-height)
  Bruce>   (* (/ (font-default-size-for-device) 2) 3))

  Bruce> which works in w32 XEmacs as

  Bruce> (/ (x-display-pixel-height)
  Bruce>   (* (/ (string-to-number (font-default-size-for-device)) 2)
  Bruce>   3))

  Bruce> or w32 Emacs as

  Bruce> (/ (x-display-pixel-height) 18)

  Bruce> I'd also like to hear of testing on other OSes.  If someone
  Bruce> has a better solution, please send it!  Thanks ahead.


I used to probe the display to get what is effectively a maximised
emacs, on start up. I stopped doing this because probing in this way
misses things like the Gnome toolbar (which I still want to be
visible). 

In recent years I've just gone onto setting it by hand. 

Cheers

Phil