From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chetan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Size of emacs window can't exceed 59 in height Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:20:14 -0700 Organization: Noname Inc. Message-ID: References: <87vdw3o5b5.fsf@es.aau.dk> <87fxn7o2xt.fsf@es.aau.dk> <289AC3F2-480A-489F-87BC-14C94C44B2B2@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223509259 24022 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2008 23:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:40:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 01:41:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Knif6-0005Jh-Ph for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:41:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59149 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Knie2-0007WI-V9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:40:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!flpi089.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!flpi088.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.com!flpi107.ffdc.sbc.com!flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com.POSTED!8e1d8614!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Emacs Gnus Cancel-Lock: sha1:7Lfm1VRxUv+SQt0OXT4vcW2j2Do= Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.37.16.137 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com 1223508017 ST000 75.37.16.137 (Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:20:17 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:20:17 EDT X-UserInfo1: FKPO@SFGTRU[RZLYMJNBNFXBWR\HPCTL@XT^OBPLAH[\RWICYFWUQBKZQLYJX\_ITFD_KFVLUN[DOM_A_NSYNWPFWNS[XV\I]PZ@BQ[@CDQDPCL^FKCBIPC@KLGEZEFNMDYMKHRL_YYYGDSSODXYN@[\BK[LVTWI@AXGQCOA_SAH@TPD^\AL\RLGRFWEARBM Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163241 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58587 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 08.10.2008 um 20:50 schrieb Chetan: > >> Value: >> ((width . 120) >> (height . 64) > > > So you see the reason why GNU Emacs 22.x is always in "pole position." I think > GNU Emacs 21.3 was not using *-frame-alist, so it follows the geometry as > specified on invocation. > > To cure your GNU Emacs 22.x problem: > > (setq default-frame-alist > (append (list > (top . 200) (left . 300) > ) default-frame-alist)) > > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > I hope to die before I *have* to use Microsoft Word. > - Donald E. Knuth, 2001-10-02 in Tübingen. Thanks for the suggestion. It does seem to fix one problem, but creates another. I like the default positioning provided for new frames. I don't want to make all frames show up on top of each other. I don't see the reason why this should happen. It seems to respect the 'left' value but not 'top'. I do not set anything in the default-frame-alist except for the font. The alist is initialized the way it is because of other functions I call. The width and height are the values coming from the command line. I only mentioned it because somebody else had a similar problem. I checked the NEWS file after I found this, but it seems to say that the position values are used for the initial frame. At first I thought it was a bug, but since it works from shell, there is something else at play. Chetan