Re: Size of emacs window can't exceed 59 in height

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 09.10.2008 um 01:20 schrieb Chetan:

> I do not set anything in the default-frame-alist except for the font.
> The alist is initialized the way it is because of other functions I
> call. The width and height are the values coming from the command
> line.

The latter sounds very reasonable: why use some special code to give  
GNU Emacs the desired frame size and position when there are the *- 
frame-alists?

>
> I checked the NEWS file after I found this, but it seems to say that
> the position values are used for the initial frame.

If there are *no* particular initial-frame-alist settings, then the  
default-frame-alist settings (also) apply for the first or initial  
frame.

>
> At first I thought it was a bug, but since it works from shell, there
> is something else at play.

Launching GNU Emacs with -Q (i.e. not loading system and user init  
files) allows you to examine the problem – and find and describe a  
possible bug. But beware: in windowing systems' environments there  
can be settings in (X11) resource or (MS) registry files that impose  
on their clients some behaviour (position, size) when nothing else is  
given ...

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Greetings

   Pete
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