Questions tagged [frames]
are the graphical system-level “windows” of Emacs. It initially contains one window and normally also contains a menu bar, tool bar, and echo area.
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make-frame-on-current-monitor giving wrong-type-argument
I am setting up a call to make-frame-on-current-monitor,
(make-frame-on-current-monitor '((width . 73) (height . 21)))
only to get
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp 73)
(make-...
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left and top for initial-frame-alist using cons variable [duplicate]
I am using a variable storing a cons cell
(defvar typex-frame-position (cons 1270 1223))
Followed by
(setq initial-frame-alist
'((left . (car typex-frame-position))
(top . (cdr typex-frame-...
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Storing position for initial frame
I have the following code to store the position where to put the initial frame (fxpos and fypos).
My problem is that when I run a new emacs session, the defcustom commands are resetting the values ...
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Select the initial frame automatically
I would like to determine the name of the initial frame. This is because I want to centre the initial frame using a function. The function needs to be passed the frame on which the centering command ...
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frame-position and frame-monitor-attributes
What is the difference between calling
(frame-position)
and getting the first two elements in
(alist-get 'geometry (frame-monitor-attributes))
Would I be getting the same thing?
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Setting position of initial frame from user defined values
I would like to set the frame position of the initial frame, by letting the user position the frame where he wants. I can then save the cons cell in a variable which will then be used for set-frame-...
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Center emacs frame to correct monitor
I want to center the emacs frame on the monitor. What can I do? I do have multiple monitors.
This is what I am doing, but the emacs frame gets displayed on a different monitor than from the monitor ...
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Centering the emacs frame
I want to display the emacs frame in the middle of the monitor. At first the emacs window is placed at the center, but after setting initial-frame-alist and the font height, the frame is repositioned ...
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menu-bar-mode and tool-bar-mode change frame size
Am calling the following two functions repeatedly (toro-fullscreen followed by "toro-normal"). The size of the frame changes. The problem happens when calling "menu-bar-mode" ...
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How do I automatically reload my agenda views on window/frame resize?
I've noticed that my agenda views get squashed (line breaks) when my window/frame resizes, e.g. when I move the Emacs frame to a smaller monitor. Is there a way/hook to automatically reload my open ...
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How to enable markdown-mode every time I invoke Emacs Anywhere?
I am using a cool software called Emacs
Anywhere.
Usually, I invoke this software to write on Stack Overflow and on
GitHub. Both websites use markdown.
Hence, almost every time I invoke Emacs Anywhere,...
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Cannot resize emacs frame
Have been resizing my emacs gui by double clicking the emacs window menu.
But after doing that, the gui does not let me resize to a smaller frame when I try moving the corners of the frame using the ...
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Intermittent frame artifacts in terminal
When scrolling inside Emacs with iTerm2, I occasionally get some output of previous commands at the top of display; not necessarily the last one. Not sure what is causing it.
Here is my config for ...
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How to add a hook to save things on kill-ring (or clipboard ring) before a frame is deleted?
Context:
I have been using an interesting software called Emacs Anywhere. It helps me bring emacs keybindings for stuff like this (editing text for a question on Stack Exchange). Overall, the software ...
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How to force `find-file` to visit the existing frame of an opened file
The below function creates a new instance of the file myfile.txt (regardless of if myfile.txt is already opened or not).
How to force emacs to use the existing frame of that file (if any)?
(defun ...
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How to always work from a daemon and always reuse an existing frame? (bonus: do it with chemacs2)
I'm new to emacs. I'm a spacemacs implant, really love ORG mode and evil mode. Been using for the past year or so.
I've read some of the emacs documentation, which is fantastically written. But I'm ...
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How to move the time and date displayed in the tab-bar a couple of character to the left
I would like to move the time and date displayed in the tab-bar a couple of characters to the left, so that the time is not completely on the edge of the screen. Here is the relevant code :
(setq tab-...
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Z-Order of Emacs Client Not Layered Top-Most
System & related settings:
Fedora 35 (using Cinnamon Desktop)
Emacs 27.2
focus mode: "sloppy" with "raise-on-click" disabled
Contrary to all other applications, including the ...
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By elisp how to change backgound color when specific theme is activated?
How do we set "white" background when only "adwaita" theme is activated.
The following does not work.
(when (equal 'custom-enabled-themes "adwaita")
(set-background-...
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Why an external monitor changes emac's frame text size?
I recently migrated to emacs 27 up from 24 (new machine running on Ubuntu 20.04, up from 16.04).
When connecting (or unplugging) the laptop to an external monitor, emacs fails to adapt text size to ...
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second frame not using values from default-frame-alist
I'm just starting to customize emacs on RHEL8, the entirety of the .emacs file is this:
(setq default-frame-alist '((width . 80) (height . 40) (menu-bar-lines . 1)))
When starting Emacs this sets the ...
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Using `desktop-read` to reload frames -- closing one frame closes all frames
A very annoying issue with desktop-save and desktop-read that I'm encountering at the moment:
I'm starting Emacs in daemon-mode, and then open a client frame. I do desktop-read and my saved desktop ...
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Moving focus to external application (Chrome) and back to Emacs
I was wondering what is the most efficient way to move in and out of Emacs windows.
In my workflow I use Chrome and Emacs constantly, so I am curious as to how other users have managed to move amongst ...
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display-buffer-reuse-frames with server-mode
I have been using display-buffer-reuse-frames for a long time. It works fine when creating multiple frames with X11, or MS-Windows.
Today I was using emacs via ssh. So I tried to use this feature, ...
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Can emacs use window system on terminal frame? (doom-emacs, iTerm)
I'm trying to set org-level-* height(font size) differently for each level(doom emacs, config.el):
(after! org
(set-face-attribute 'org-level-1 nil :height 1.75))
But it displays different ...
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How to automatically hide mode line by detecting frame size?
Hide mode-line would be more compact for a narrow sub-frame like this:
For now, I'm using doom-emacs and binding keys like SPC t m to hide the mode-line, This just works but, I want to ask,
Is it ...
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How to include name of current tab and its buffer in the frame title?
I would like the title my frames to show "<name of tab>: <name of buffer in active window>".
Presently, frame-title-format has its default value of %b, which shows only the name ...
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Dired: open file in another frame, but reuse an already existing one
I use a two-screen setup, and I like to have a frame with dired on one screen and another frame on the second screen. When I want to work on a specific file, I usually copy the file path from dired ...
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How can you list all non-child frames?
There's frame-list but this lists child-frames, and there's visible-frame-list but this doesn't list iconified frames.
It seems like there should be a simple function to return all non-child frames.
I ...
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make-frame - not full screen mode
Linux Mint 20.2
Emacs 27.1
To start Emacs in full screen mode in my init.el I use this:
(add-hook 'window-setup-hook 'toggle-frame-maximized t)
Nice.
But when I want to start new frame by this ...
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Open new file in new frame without raising existing frames (Windows)
I run Emacs in a MSWindows environment (via server launched with runemacs), and open new files with emacsclientw.exe -n [filename]. It works very well, except for a detail in the second case below:
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How to dynamically replace certain text, by evaluating a function on change in current buffer
I am trying to figure out how to use window-change-functions refer here for official documentation to be able to run a function to replace certain text within the current buffer at every change of the ...
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How to use make-frame to bring up "maximized windows" like -mm does for the first window (using WSL 2)?
I am running emacs under (Ubuntu under) WSL 2 and I can bring up the first frame maximized (i.e. almost full screen, leaving the Windows "task bar" exposed, the -mm option does that). I ...
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frame-background-mode leads `Args out of range: #<buffer doo.py>, 0, 1` error
I am using following answer to search and replace a word in the entire buffer:
(defun query-replace-region-or-from-top ()
"If marked, query-replace for the region, else for the whole buffer (...
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local variable set to nil after switch-to-buffer call
Emacs 26.1 user here.
I know some common-lisp but new to elisp, so I wonder if I'm missing something obvious. I'm trying a rather simple frame setup with a function I wrote, and there's this strange ...
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Minibuffer not showing the bottom line
When I use multiple monitors, the bottom line of the minibuffer doesn't render; ie there's a line at the bottom of the list that I can select but doesn't render on screen.
I'm pretty stumped on how to ...
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`pop-to-buffer` in other frame if file is already visited
Say I have two frames open. Frame A is visiting a file foo.org. Calling (pop-to-buffer "foo.org") in the other frame (B) opens foo.org in frame B instead of moving the focus to frame A where ...
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Delete single window frame after app quits
Some of the apps (w3m, elfeed, mu4e, to name a few) when quit leave unused frame so the other buffer shows up in their place. Over time these redundant frames pile up, so we have to delete them.
I ...
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Deleting a minibuffer only frame on C-g
What I'm trying to achieve
I'm trying to create a popup that runs an elisp funtion I've written which searches my library directory for pdfs, gets the user to choose an option (using completing read) ...
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How can I display a buffer in a whole frame, removing the rest in the act?
Basically that. I need a function that would do this when I open a buffer in a frame with many other windows. Maybe Emacs has one by default.
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Why "set-face-attribute" needs to be executed twice when switching from a TTF font to a bitmap font?
I'm trying to write a function which switches between fonts in all
frames. In order to do this, I first wrote the following commands:
This font is a TTF font and is located in ~/.local/share/fonts/...
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How to show all split window titles in the X11 window title?
If I split an Emacs frame (one X11 window) into multiple Emacs windows (with C-x 2 and C-x 3) and open different Emacs buffers in different Emacs windows, Emacs frame title (X11 window title) displays ...
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Undecorated Frame with header line as titlebar
I am trying to remove all window manager decorations from emacs. This works well using:
(set-frame-parameter nil 'undecorated t)
But now what I want to have is a one line (global) header line (which ...
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How can I get a listing of all buffers and the frames displaying them?
I want to get a list of all the windows and their frames, so I can jump directly to the frame and window.
If a buffer is not open in a window then the command should still jump to the last frame in ...
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How to keep mode-line in title bar even in new poped up frames?
I am using the following code to keep the org-pomodoro clock in the title bar,
(setq frame-title-format '("" invocation-name "@" system-name " " org-pomodoro-mode-line))
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How to focus or change point on child frame
I am trying to use lsp-ui package to display some documentation for Rust. When I put the cursor on a type for example, a popup child frame is created but the focus is still on the main window. If I ...
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How to setup ediff to open a new frame with the two comparison buffers
When I issue M-x ediff-buffersI'd like ediff to create a new frame with the two buffers (and close this frame when done with the comparison). How can I customise ediff to do so?
I tried
(defun leo-...
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how to move a line from one window to another?
I have two files open, shown in two windows.
Some lines in one file belong in the other file.
I could cut the line here, move to the other window, paste there, and come back. That's a lot of work with ...
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How can I set WM_CLASS for Emacs 27?
I use scratchpads in XMonad (my WM) extensively for quickly capturing (notes, TODOs etc) from anyhwere. I have an instance of Emacs running permanently in a workspace, and launch emacsclient as my ...
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How can I create a frame and open two files split vertically in it?
I am trying to write an Elisp function that will create a new frame and in that new frame open two files split vertically.
I have been unable to find anything about this in the Elisp manual, node ...
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