Re: How to set window size in .emacs and have that size respected?

[WalterGR <waltergr@gmail.com>]

On Jan 13, 8:08 am, WalterGR <walte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 13, 8:03 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
>
> > Am 13.01.2009 um 10:45 schrieb WalterGR:
>
> > > How do I get Emacs to respect my chosen window height?
>
> > Remove tool-bar, menu-bar, window decoration?
>
> I disable the tool-bar prior to setting the height.  The menu-bar and
> window decoration are enabled.
>
> But I don't think that's the problem.  While it's going through the
> start-up process, Emacs shows the menu-bar and window decoration, sets
> the height to what I choose, and then suddenly reduces the height by 3
> lines.  It's the reduction-by-3 (which happens no matter which height
> I select) that confuses me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walter

Oh, I get it now...  Your message led me to the right Google
incantation, and I found

http://osdir.com/ml/emacs.bugs/2002-11/msg00143.html

which suggests "This is a known problem, but nobody knows how to fix
it."  Unfortunate.

Walter