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I am running Linux Mint 17.1 with Cinnamon. Every time I launch emacs24, either from a command line or from a launcher, it sizes itself to just less than the full size of the screen. --geometry has no effect; a setting in .Xresources has no effect. Shortly after starting, it generally hiccups and fiddles with the size again.

Is there any way to stop this? I just want about 1/2-of a screen of emacs.

I tried:

emacs24 --geometry 80x24

and, in .Xresources:

Emacs*geometry: 80x24

and I tried:

emacs -q --no-site-file

none of these changed the behavior.

I ran the precise command:

/usr/bin/emacs24 -q --no-site-file --geometry 80x24

and I still got an expanded Window. I suspect some sort of cinnamon auto-expansion, but I can't find any relevant setting.

The current version of cinnamon on Mint 17.1 is:

Cinnamon 2.4.8
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  • Please edit your question and show the exact command (--geometry) and .Xresources setting that didn't fail so we don't reinvent the wheel.
    – terdon ♦
    Jul 1, 2015 at 11:53
  • Run emacs with -q --no-site-file - if that works, then you have a setting in your personal or system initialisations. At which point, try just -u, of course.
    – Toby Speight
    Jul 1, 2015 at 12:03
  • Odd. I can't reproduce this on Cinnamon 2.6.7 on Debian. Running ` emacs24 --geometry 80x24` gives me an 80x24 window. Does it work if you run /usr/bin/emacs24 -q --no-site-file --geometry 80x24? Please run that exact command.
    – terdon ♦
    Jul 1, 2015 at 13:08
  • @terdon I did that.
    – bmargulies
    Jul 1, 2015 at 14:54
  • What version of cinnamon is this? (Run cinnamon --version to check). Since I don't have it, you might want to try upgrading it.
    – terdon ♦
    Jul 1, 2015 at 14:57

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Reset to default
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It might still be emacs setting the window size. In my ~/.emacs I have this line:

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist (cons 'height 43)) ;better window size

I probably picked that value through experimentation. That gives me a frame that is 43 text lines long, including the mode line and the echo area but not the menu bar (which I have disabled).

The number of lines, along with the font size (defined in (custom-set-faces in my ~/.gnu-emacs-custom) should define the window size. Mine includes :height 98.

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With Cinnamon 3.2.7, the geometry value is not ignored completely. For example, when setting a 10x10 geometry I get 60 columns and 38 rows. While not perfect, is good enough to be able to get a non maximized window.

For .Xresources, I needed to change the syntax a little:

emacs.geometry:10x10

I wonder if the geometry is being affected by some kind of environment variable used for a 4K display. But looking to env I do not find anything interesting.

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In case someone else runs into this problem, I resolved it by changing the menu scale factor from 1.5 to 1.25 via the Displays utility. (I normally don't have it that high, but it seemed to get set after unplugging an FHD external monitor.)

This is under Ubuntu 18.04 on a laptop with a 4K monitor.

$ /usr/bin/emacs --version
GNU Emacs 25.3.2

$ linux-version
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
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