From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacslient --frame-parameters Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:58:14 +0100 Message-ID: <874lpv175l.fsf@rub.de> References: <87vaibw9i9.fsf@127.0.0.1> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510786779 15691 195.159.176.226 (15 Nov 2017 22:59:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:59:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 15 23:59:36 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eF6ed-0003lY-7K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:59:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38238 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF6ej-0001Uj-Vn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:59:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36785) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF6dY-0000zB-RL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:58:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF6dV-00075V-QF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:58:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46960 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF6dV-00074I-Iw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eF6dK-0007mO-6t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:58:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114889 Archived-At: On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:51:42 -0800 HASM 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