Re: Window size specification ignored

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.09.2005 um 00:48 schrieb August Karlstrom:

> If I invoke
>
>    $ /usr/bin/emacs

I wanted to make you try

        /usr/bin/emacs -q

and

        /usr/bin/emacs -Q

The latter method should launch GNU Emacs without loading *any* local 
Ubuntu customisation. If they launch differently, then you have a clue 
that some Ubuntu customisation file is causing the too big appearence. 
If they appear in both cases the same then there can be an X resource 
causing this. Check files like .xinitrc and .Xdefaults, and check the 
output of 'xrdb -query' too! Comment out lines in .xinitrc, the file 
that launches X11, which have to do with xrdb, log off, and log in 
again. Now you should have less X resources set.

It's good use to launch an application by its path name -- but what 
when this path name is a script that launches the final application? 
It's not likely, but ps would reveal this.

I have in Mac OS X these two aliases to check this:

	for csh family: alias PS        "ps -lwwgx   | egrep UID\|\!:1 | grep 
-v grep"
	for  sh family: PS    () { ps -lwwgx  | egrep UID\|${1} | grep -v grep 
; }

In a shell you simply type 'PS emacs' and you get something like:

pete 161 /\ PS emacs
  UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI      VSZ    RSS WCHAN  STAT  TT       TIME 
COMMAND
  501  4107  4094   0  31  0    53288  17432 -      S     ??    7:10.04 
/usr/local/bin/emacs-22.0.50 -geometry 85x45+18+240
  501 26465     1   0  31  0    22728    536 -      S     ??    0:00.01 
-bin/tcsh -i -c /usr/local/bin/emacs-23.0.0 --debug-init -geometry  
100x57+666+44
  501 26470 26465   0  31  0    75008  39136 -      R     ??    3:41.96 
/usr/local/bin/emacs-23.0.0 --debug-init -geometry 100x57+666+44


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Greetings

  Pete

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