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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacslient --frame-parameters
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:58:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lpv175l.fsf@rub.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vaibw9i9.fsf@127.0.0.1

On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:51:42 -0800 HASM <hasm@example.invalid> wrote:

> With emacs-25.3-3.fc26.x86_64 on Fedora, I Can't get emacsclient -F
> (--frame-parameters) to work.
>
> I tried starting emacs as
>   emacs -q -Q -nsl
> and issuing
>   server-start
> from the *scratch* buffer.
>
> Then from the shell, running
>   emacsclient -n -c -F "((width.200)(height.50)(top.20)(left.2000))"
>   (and/or other geometry parameter values)
> always gives me a window (fame) with the same geometry as the original
> frame, at some window manager assigned position.
>
> What I am doing wrong?

Omitting spaces in the cons cells; try this:    

emacsclient -n -c -F "((width . 200)(height . 50)(top . 20)(left . 2000))"

Steve Berman




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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-15 20:51 emacslient --frame-parameters HASM
2017-11-15 22:58 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
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2017-11-16  4:00   ` HASM

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