Re: set window size on init

[Jonathan Groll]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 03:05:06PM -0500, despen@verizon.net wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > > From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:57:14 -0800 (PST)
> > >
> > > i have, at the end of my .emacs this code:
> > >
> > > ; set window size to 100x58 chars.
> > > (set-frame-size (selected-frame) 100 58)
> > >
> > > however, it doesn't work.
> > > But eval-region the code itself would work.
> >
> > Does it help to run this from term-setup-hook or window-setup-hook?
> >
> > The reason for the inconsistency is that Emacs initializes the GUI
> > display at some specific point during startup, and any customizations
> > of the display before that point will generally be overridden.
>
> It might but this page suggests some solutions:
>
> http://emacsblog.org/2007/01/29/maximize-on-startup-part-1/
>
> (The one with the initial-frame-alist seems most useful.)

The same Ryan McGeary who wrote the above blog entry also wrote
maxframe.el:
http://files.emacsblog.org/ryan/elisp/maxframe.el

I find it works perfectly well for me with GNU emacs under Linux if it
is one of the last things invoked in .emacs.

Under OS X I manually set frame-size as maxframe makes the frame too
big. This is the function I use to set frame-size manually for my
specific display:

;;maximize frame function for darwin - by Nurullah Akkaya on help-gnu-emacs
(defun na-resize-frame-big ()
  "Set size"
  (interactive)
  (set-frame-width (selected-frame) 178)
  (set-frame-height (selected-frame) 50 )
  (set-frame-position (selected-frame) 0 1))


Regards,
Jonathan