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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