Re: Emacs geometry

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:46:45 -0700
> From: Sridhar Boovaraghavan <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> In my registry, Emacs.Geometry = 80x48+0+0 (used to be 80x48). With
> this setting and emacs -Q, default-frame-alist shows width as 80 and
> height as 48, but comes up with an offset to the command prompt (DOS
> box).

It looks like there's some bug, because -geometry=80x48+0+0 doesn't
work from the command line either.  I asked Ralf Angeli to look into
this.

> I also tried setting a variable called geometry in default-frame-alist
> to 80x48+0+0, saved it for this session, created a new frame (C-x 5 2)
> and got the same behavior as before (offset frame). Is there a
> variable called geometry that can be set in default-frame-alist?

In default-frame-alist, you should set the parameters `top' and `left'
for position, and `height' and `width' for dimensions.  This does
work, I think.