Or there's initial-frame-alist. I don't quite understand the interaction with default-frame-alist.
I prefer to have emacs open butted up to the right; in initial-frame- alist, set left to -1. I had hoped that -0 would do this, as in X, but I can afford to be off by one pixel! --S On 21 Jul 2007, at 20:18, Rajiv Patel wrote: > > You don't need to go to so much trouble for this - just add top, > left, width and height fields to default-frame-alist, which you can > get to via customize-variable. If you set top and left both to 0, > emacs will first appear at the center of the screen, but then pop to > the top left corner. Width and height are in characters and lines, > respectively. > > r. > > On Jul 21, 2007, at 13:59, Ryan McGeary wrote: > >> Adrian, >> >> This doesn't answer your question directly, but take a look at this >> maxframe package that I wrote. Here's a blog post that describes it: >> >> http://www.emacsblog.org/2007/02/22/maximize-on-startup-part-2/ >> >> The latest version is available here: >> http://files.emacsblog.org/ryan/elisp/maxframe.el >> >> You should be able to get your desired placement on startup by >> tweaking some of the following variables: >> >> mf-display-padding-width >> mf-display-padding-height >> mf-offset-x >> mf-offset-y >> mf-max-width >> mf-max-height >> >> -Ryan >> >> On 6/27/07, Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have been using Carbon Emacs for a while now, and I have to say >> that >> its a great program. I'm wondering if there's any way to change the >> default size and position of the emacs window? I'd like the windows >> to appear bigger and more towards the sides of the screen, rather >> than >> popping in the center of the desktop as they do now. I have tried >> adding lines to my .emacs file as well as using the -g option, but >> neither seems to work. >> >> Thank you, >> Adrian >>> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > rajiv > patel > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Carbon Emacs" group mailing list. To post to this group, send email to carbon-emacs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/carbon-emacs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
