From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: trouble setting fullscreen frame parameter Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 20:05:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87ppk2r6ks.fsf@web.de> References: <87ioq0f573.fsf@nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398621989 23104 80.91.229.3 (27 Apr 2014 18:06:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:06:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 27 20:06:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WeTT2-0000Bi-KW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 20:06:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40160 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WeTT2-00076L-63 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:06:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WeTSj-0006pr-FA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:06:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WeTSd-0004q0-B2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:06:01 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WeTSd-0004pn-4g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:05:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WeTSb-0007lX-Uc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 20:05:53 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-187-86-177.web.vodafone.de ([90.187.86.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 20:05:53 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-187-86-177.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 20:05:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-187-86-177.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:N8TOqENnHjSjdIzH7HKRZHsRXVc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97396 Archived-At: gottlieb@nyu.edu writes: > Emacs 24.3 Gentoo (stable) > > Starting with emacs -Q > > (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen 'fullheight) > returns nil but > * no visible effect on the frame > * (frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen) returns nil > * (frame-parameters) includes ``(fullscreen)'' > > Restarting with emacs -Q > > (modify-frame-parameters nil '( (fullscreen . fullheight))) > returns nil but again > * no visible effect on the frame > * (frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen) returns nil > * (frame-parameters) includes ``(fullscreen)'' FWIW, both recipes work well for me. I tested a built of the emacs-24 branch and Emacs 24 from Debian testing. It could be window manager dependent. If not, I would consider it a bug in your Emacs. Michael.