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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: How come emacsclient --create-frame doesn't understand -geometry?
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> From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)
> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:38:56 +0100
> 
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:04:21 -0500, Glenn wrote:
> 
> > Adam Sjøgren wrote:
> 
> >> /usr/bin/emacsclient: unrecognized option '-geometry'
> 
> > Try --frame-parameters instead.
> 
>   $ emacsclient --create-frame --frame-parameters 120x40+10+20
>   Waiting for Emacs...
>   *ERROR*: Wrong type argument: listp, 120x40+10+20
>   $ 

>From "emacsclient --help":

  -F ALIST, --frame-parameters=ALIST
			  Set the parameters of a new frame

Emacsclient expects you to specify the geometry as an alist, not as an
X-style geometry spec.

> Anyway, that wasn't really an answer to the question.

It wasn't?  Why not?