From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Torben Knudsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to set window size in .emacs and have that size respected? Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:50:04 +0100 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87d4eqfc8j.fsf@es.aau.dk> References: <49f67ade-3c42-407d-9f5e-6220568036fc@o4g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <55314adf-7e68-460a-92c5-ff97b5b8cae5@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <9510acb6-f545-4f3c-8935-633b7b0fee69@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com> <44992162-29e4-48ed-8610-4e94d9fc8edc@x16g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231929715 13501 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2009 10:41:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:41:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 14 11:43:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LN3D8-0008Fu-DC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:42:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38536 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LN3Br-0004Tz-S5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:41:39 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.38.50.63 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=ljfg7fVGoAJa0CAcDd; B0AYSB=nbEKnkKl:4`YVO27`O_Eg>6@:AacBRmRXRbJZRgOIodZ>\EX\OL Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165991 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61318 Archived-At: I also had problems controlling the position and size of my emacs window. I ended up with the below for reasons I don't recall. ;; Sizing emacs via .Xresources did not work perfectly for me. ;; Therefore the below is included (setq default-frame-alist '((top . 0) (left . 1440) (width . 80) (height . 64))) (setq initial-frame-alist '((top . 0) (left . 1440) (width . 80) (height . 64))) -- Associate Prof. Ph.D Torben Knudsen Mobile : (+45) 2787 9826 Section of Automation and Control, Direct : 6 8694 Department of Electronic Systems, Email : tk@es.aau.dk Aalborg University Fredrik Bajersvej 7 DK-9220 Aalborg Ø Denmark