Re: Window too big

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 03:36:20 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> writes:
> 
>> When I start emacs from the menu in xcfe, it always is slightly taller
>> than my screen. I have to mouse around and make it smaller before it is
>> usable. Is there something I can put, say, in my ~/.emacs file to
>> change how tall it is?
> 
> If you don't start Emacs from the menu in xcfe, but open a terminal
> emulator window (e.g., xterm) and type 'emacs', you can append options
> that will allow you to easily fine tune what should happen. I'm sure you
> can modify the menu item to encompass such options, but at least in the
> experimentation phase, and actually every time else as well, it is
> faster, and more powerful, to do it from a command interpreter. Anyway,
> here are some of the options you wish to examine - do
> 
>     $ man emacs
> 
> for more!
> 
>       -fh, --fullheight
>               Make the first frame as high as the screen.

Someone must be lying to it about how big the screen is.  When I use -fh, 
the main edit buffer just fits on the screen, the status line and the 
place you type filenames to edit does not.

I should try again with a  different window manager, see if that makes a 
difference.

-- hendrik

-- hendrik