emacslient --frame-parameters

emacslient --frame-parameters

[HASM]

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?

-- HASM
  

Re: emacslient --frame-parameters

[Stephen Berman]

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

Re: emacslient --frame-parameters

[HASM]

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:

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

That seems to work for width and height.  Thanks.

However, left and top seem to be ignored, with the window manager
placing the window wherever it wants, even when I add (user-position
. t) to frame parameters.

Passing equivalent geometry to uxterm, the terminal gets placed at the
requested coordinates, so the window manager does obey it in some cases.

-- HASM