Re: emacslient --frame-parameters

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:51:42 -0800 HASM <hasm@example.invalid> wrote:

> With emacs-25.3-3.fc26.x86_64 on Fedora, I Can't get emacsclient -F
> (--frame-parameters) to work.
>
> I tried starting emacs as
>   emacs -q -Q -nsl
> and issuing
>   server-start
> from the *scratch* buffer.
>
> Then from the shell, running
>   emacsclient -n -c -F "((width.200)(height.50)(top.20)(left.2000))"
>   (and/or other geometry parameter values)
> always gives me a window (fame) with the same geometry as the original
> frame, at some window manager assigned position.
>
> What I am doing wrong?

Omitting spaces in the cons cells; try this:    

emacsclient -n -c -F "((width . 200)(height . 50)(top . 20)(left . 2000))"

Steve Berman