emacs on X and screensize

emacs on X and screensize

[Dick Hoogendijk]

I'm kind of new to emacs and have tried lots of options. I can't find
the solution to a simple question though.

Everytime I start emacs (running Xorg) the program takes the total wide
of the screen at startup. so everytime I have to resize the window to
*my* preference. Most programs can save the window state. I would like
this for emacs too. Is this possible from within the progam or do I need
to call it in a special way from my windowmanager?

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Re: emacs on X and screensize

[B. T. Raven]

Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> I'm kind of new to emacs and have tried lots of options. I can't find
> the solution to a simple question though.
> 
> Everytime I start emacs (running Xorg) the program takes the total wide
> of the screen at startup. so everytime I have to resize the window to
> *my* preference. Most programs can save the window state. I would like
> this for emacs too. Is this possible from within the progam or do I need
> to call it in a special way from my windowmanager?
> 


This form is from my .emacs. It makes the frame occupy about the bottom half 
of the physical screen. You can experiment by changing any of the parameters 
ad libitum:

(setq initial-frame-alist '((name . "arial") (top . 370) (left . 1) (width . 
163) (height . 17)))

The width seems to be affected by what your default font is, especially 
whether it is proportional or not.

Ed

Re: emacs on X and screensize

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.05.2007 um 14:53 schrieb Dick Hoogendijk:

> Everytime I start emacs (running Xorg) the program takes the total  
> wide
> of the screen at startup. so everytime I have to resize the window to
> *my* preference. Most programs can save the window state. I would like
> this for emacs too.

You can set initial-frame-alist and default-frame-alist, you can put  
some settings into ~/.Xdefaults (Emacs*geometry:   97x53+111+11), you  
can pass arguments to GNU Emacs. Try in some terminal:

	emacs --help

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