From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Vollmar Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: site-start.el: inhibit-startup-screen? Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:09:00 +0200 Message-ID: <5FF50F23-9E80-484C-A02E-354AB92F7701@nf.mpg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-7--291802182; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274368301 10196 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2010 15:11:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 20 17:11:39 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1OF7P1-0005ix-0j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 17:11:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48686 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OF7Ox-000567-0o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:11:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36458 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OF7NT-0004dO-HR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OF7Mv-00021u-RN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:09:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.nf.mpg.de ([134.107.209.50]:42763) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OF7Mv-00021E-8L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:09:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.21] by mail.nf.mpg.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.03 (built Apr 24 2009; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0L2Q00C4T4V88O10@mail.nf.mpg.de> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 17:11:33 +0200 (MEST) In-reply-to: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:73690 Archived-At: --Apple-Mail-7--291802182 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear Drew, On 19.05.2010, at 17:07, Drew Adams wrote: >> we need to have an internal rollout of Emacs where we want to=20 >> put some institute-specific defaults in a site-start.el (or=20 >> default.el) file. I can see why one generally should not set=20 >> "inhibit-startup-screen" as a default for new users, in our=20 >> case (we try to provide internal documentation and courses)=20 >> it seems justified. If we put >>=20 >> (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) >>=20 >> in site-start.el we still get the Emacs splashscreen. Is=20 >> there a way to avoid the splashscreen other than using=20 >> user-specific .emacs files? >=20 > I would think, following the doc, that (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) = would > work. You might want to check whether the value is actually t after = Emacs starts > up. If it is not, figure out where it gets changed. >=20 > Other than that, take a look also at option `initial-buffer-choice'. The latter solves the problem partially: (find-file "~/untitled") (setq initial-buffer-choice "~/untitled") will indeed display an "untitled" buffer (no more splash screen), = however, dropping a file on the Emacs icon no longer opens that file but = also displays the "untitled" buffer (to be fair: I never mentioned that = this drag & drop feature was desirable in our case). Without "initial-buffer-choice" drag & drop works as expected - but = yields a split screen with the splash screen in the lower part (and a = full splash screen if the Emacs icon is just clicked). So it seems that there is no easy way to configure Emacs 23.2 to not = display the splash screen (split or full screen), apart from using a = "--no-splash" start option or a user specific .emacs file where = inhibit-startup-screen does work (if one still wants to have drag & drop = support for the Emacs icon). This is not a big deal for individual = users, but still a bit awkward if you want to have a = ready-to-run-distribution for a specific purpose. It seems to me that it would be a good thing if inhibit-startup-screen = would also work in a site-start.el-file. Thanks for all the other answers, too! Warm regards, Stefan --=20 Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys. 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