[plug] Controlling the initial geometry of a program under X

Peter Wright pete at akira.apana.org.au
Thu Apr 11 18:21:00 WST 2002


On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:16:07PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> -geometry geometry
>     Set the Emacs window's width, height,  and  position  as  specified.   The
>     geometry  specification  is  in  the  standard X format; see X(1) for more
>     information.  The width  and  height  are  specified  in  characters;  the
>     default is 80 by 24.

Hmmm. That's rather evil, to just decide to interpret the height and width
in characters rather than in pixels. Well Dave, don't use the examples I
gave then, unless you really want an emacs window with 640 columns and 480
rows. :)

> Cheers; Leon

Pete.
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