Re: trouble setting fullscreen frame parameter

[Michael Heerdegen]

gottlieb@nyu.edu writes:

> Emacs 24.3     Gentoo (stable)
>
> Starting with emacs -Q
>
> (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen 'fullheight)
> returns nil but 
>   * no visible effect on the frame
>   * (frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen) returns nil
>   * (frame-parameters) includes ``(fullscreen)''
>
> Restarting with emacs -Q
>
> (modify-frame-parameters nil '( (fullscreen . fullheight)))
> returns nil but again
>   * no visible effect on the frame
>   * (frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen) returns nil
>   * (frame-parameters) includes ``(fullscreen)''

FWIW, both recipes work well for me.  I tested a built of the emacs-24
branch and Emacs 24 from Debian testing.

It could be window manager dependent.  If not, I would consider it a bug
in your Emacs.


Michael.