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: Window too big Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:42:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87r3l7ggkq.fsf@web.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444211016 27026 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2015 09:43:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 09:43:36 +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 Oct 07 11:43:28 2015 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 1ZjlFv-00051J-JS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:43:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56553 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjlFu-00088A-Qe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 05:43:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjlFZ-00083Q-68 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 05:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjlFV-0003Md-QT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 05:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjlFV-0003Lj-JF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 05:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjlFS-0004o1-OY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:42:58 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-0-113.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.0.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:42:58 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-0-113.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:42:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-0-113.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:O0SZGPdcHHyNTphmuuOFI4jar9c= 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:107534 Archived-At: J G Miller writes: > You can also set frame sizes (and other properties) in emacsrc file with > > (cond ((eq window-system 'x) > > (setq default-frame-alist > '((user-position . t) > (user-size . t) > (height . 42) > (width . 108) > (top . 0) > (left . 0) > (cursor-color . "#dddd44") > (mouse-color . "#ffffaa"))) > > ) > > but the values for height widrth and position here are overriden (in > my experience) by the Emacs apps-default values if they are set. ;; let the first frame appear according to `default-frame-alist' (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame) default-frame-alist) in the init file can work around that problem. The starting frame is a bit special in Emacs. Michael.