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flawy
flawy

Reputation: 67

Emacs Window Resize on Startup

So I have been using emacs a lot lately. And I have been noticing that the window resizes for a second when it starts up. Is there a way to fix that?

Here is the GIF of what I'm talking about.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2676

Answers (4)

Color
Color

Reputation: 985

My Sample Code (Ensure to put these codes at the first line of your init.el file)

(setq frame-inhibit-implied-resize t) ;; prevent resize window on startup
(setq default-frame-alist '((width . 120) (height . 42)))
(defun x/disable-scroll-bars (frame)
  (modify-frame-parameters frame '((horizontal-scroll-bars . nil)
                                   (vertical-scroll-bars . nil))))
(if (display-graphic-p)
    (progn
      (scroll-bar-mode -1)
      (tool-bar-mode -1)
      (fringe-mode '(8 . 0))
      (add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions 'x/disable-scroll-bars))
  (progn
    (menu-bar-mode -1)
    (setq-default
     left-margin-width 1
     right-margin-width 0)))

The core is (setq frame-inhibit-implied-resize t).

Upvotes: 2

thoni56
thoni56

Reputation: 3335

I run Emacs from WSL with an X11 server on Windows 10. I could set some -geometry to make it not resize into a minimal initial window, but that seemed to be flaky and random. This happened with both Xming and Vcxsrv. It happened even with -Q so in my case it was not related to anything in my startup files.

I haven't tried Cygwins X11 server, but when I tried the evaluation version X410 (available in the Windows Store) it did not have the same problem.

Upvotes: 0

boehm_s
boehm_s

Reputation: 5564

I've got this line in my .emacs to go fullscreen on startup: 

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(fullscreen . maximized))

Upvotes: 0

JSON
JSON

Reputation: 4606

To prevent Emacs from resizing its window after startup, put all geometry and font options on the command line or .Xdefaults file rather than in .emacs or other lisp init files.

The initial Emacs frame is drawn before running the lisp startup files, but the X config and command line options have already been read.

As your GIF is mainly showing a width change, with only a minor change in height and no change in the position of the frame, I suspect it is most likely font settings rather than size settings that you need to look for.

Upvotes: 2

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