Frame size under KDE 4

Frame size under KDE 4

[Sven Bretfeld]

Hi Emacsers

KDE 4 (Jaunty) causes problems in accepting frame-sizes when emacsclient
is started with (set-frame-height). While starting, the new frame
appears in the correct size for half a second, then KDE seems to take
over and maximizes the frame.

I use icons/keys pointing to scripts like this one to start a small
emacsclient which I use for quick notes or emails while working with
other programs:

#!/bin/bash
emacsclient.emacs-snapshot -c -e "(set-frame-height (selected-frame)
18)" -e '(set-default-font
"-Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--14-140-75-75-M-90-ISO8859-1")' -e
"(ibuffer)"

It's working fine under GNOME. KDE, however, insists on starting the
frame maximized. Usually I have one or two maximized frames open to do
my ordinary Emacs work. And this seems to confuse KDE, it seems to have
a "memory" for that.

This is surely a KDE problem. So, this is not the optimal group for that
question. But hopefully somebody faced the same problem and can give me
a hint.

Thanks

Sven

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Re: Frame size under KDE 4

[Stefan Kamphausen]

Hi Sven,

"Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@rub.de> writes:

> It's working fine under GNOME. KDE, however, insists on starting the
> frame maximized. Usually I have one or two maximized frames open to do
> my ordinary Emacs work. And this seems to confuse KDE, it seems to have
> a "memory" for that.

in KDE you can _manually_ save such information.  Maybe you did that
earlier and now it strikes back?  I know nothing about an automatic
memory. 

Take a look at the extended window properties in the control center of
KDE (sorry, I'm running KDE 4.x in German localization so I can't tell
the exact names).

Other than that I've been using the variable initial-frame-alist happily
for years under various window managers.  I set it using customize.

Cheers,
Stefan 
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