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From: despen@verizon.net
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set window size on init
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:05:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <icskckygi5.fsf@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10516.1257964476.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:57:14 -0800 (PST)
>> 
>> i have, at the end of my .emacs this code:
>> 
>> ; set window size to 100x58 chars.
>> (set-frame-size (selected-frame) 100 58)
>> 
>> however, it doesn't work.
>> But eval-region the code itself would work.
>
> Does it help to run this from term-setup-hook or window-setup-hook?
>
> The reason for the inconsistency is that Emacs initializes the GUI
> display at some specific point during startup, and any customizations
> of the display before that point will generally be overridden.

It might but this page suggests some solutions:

http://emacsblog.org/2007/01/29/maximize-on-startup-part-1/

(The one with the initial-frame-alist seems most useful.)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-11 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-10 19:57 set window size on init Xah Lee
2009-11-10 20:39 ` despen
2009-11-11  8:32 ` Kiwon Um
2009-11-11 21:01   ` Xah Lee
2009-11-11 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.10516.1257964476.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-11 20:05   ` despen [this message]
2009-11-14  6:51     ` Jonathan Groll

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