[PLUG] Setting initinal/default emacs frame size

[Johnathan Mantey]

I'm guessing Xdefaults is winning. Try removing the value there and try the
alist method.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 11:22 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Johnathan Mantey wrote:
>
> > From emacswiki I found the initial-frame-alist and default-frame-alist
> > variables.
> > I added a single line into my .emacs file and renamed my init.el file.
> > (setq initial-frame-alist
> >       '((top . 10) (left . 20) (width . 150) (height . 25)))
>
> Johnathan,
>
> Thanks. I see the initial-frame-alist and default-frame-alist variables,
> too, but changing values in them makes no difference.
>
> I have a few lines in ~/.emacs.d/init.el that date from the mid-1990s. I
> can
> probably rename the file or delete it since the emacs version then was much
> different.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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