Re: using Xresources for geometry

[Baloff]

Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com> writes:

> Baloff <washdc@wash.edu> writes:
> 
> > Hello
> > in my Xresources I have
> > 
> > emacs*Background: Black
> > emacs*Foreground: White
> > emacs*pointerColor: White
> > emacs*cursorColor: White
> > emacs*bitmapIcon: on
> > emacs*font: fixed
> > emacs*geometry: 160x80
> > 
> > the last line I changed from 80x40 but no changes happened when I
> > restarted emacs.
> > 
> > isn't suppose to work?
> > nothing in my .emacs which has to do with (setq initial-frame-alist
> 
> What window manager are you using? some window managers will
> "remember" the last size you had emacs set to and will restore that
> and override any geometry setting. In particular, I've been bitten by
> this in the past with (I think) gnome+sawfish and KDE.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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gnome 2.6.1

I read this in the documentation C-h v initial-frame-alist
****************************************
* Specify X resources to give the geometry you want.
* Set `default-frame-alist' to override these options so that they
  don't affect subsequent frames.
* Set `initial-frame-alist' in a way that matches the X resources,
  to override what you put in `default-frame-alist'.
****************************************


well, I have the following

.Xresources******************************
emacs*height: 70
emacs*width: 180
emacs*top: 1
emacs*left: 1

the last lines in my .emacs are
****************************************
;;these lines should be at the end of this file
(setq initial-frame-alist '((top . 1)(left . 1)
 (width . 180)(height . 70)))
(setq default-frame-alist '((width . 180)(height . 70)))

 

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