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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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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How to prevent org-protocol from creating new frames?
Whenever I use org-protocol via bookmarklet, a new Emacs frame is created.
A heavy use of org-protocol will create a great number of frames, slowing down the system. Is it possible to avoid this? ...
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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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Open icons are not displaying in the tab of centaur-tab
I want to have my editor work with tabs and I'm using centaur-tabs for that purpose.
Below is my emacs config
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://...
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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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Map maximizing window and frameset-to-register/restore frame configuration to C-x 1
Currently C-x 1 maximizes the current window. What I wish to have is to use C-x 1 to
maximize the current window (if there are more open) AND store the current frameset to an arbitrary register (eg. ...
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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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Font and frame configuration in daemon mode
In my .emacs I have
(set-frame-font "Source Code Pro")
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Source Code Pro" :height 140)
(set-face-font 'default "Source Code Pro")
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How to make a graphical frame when no other graphical frames are present?
One way would be to somehow guess a display and do (make-frame-on-display display). However, (getenv "DISPLAY") does not give a sensible answer (e.g ":" or nil).
I tried to ...
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How to enable org mode and evil mode for untitled buffer when creating a new frame
The code below creates a new frame with an untitled buffer, how to make this buffer default with org-mode and evil-mode?
(global-set-key (kbd "s-n") 'new-empty-frame)
(defun new-empty-frame ...
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Emacs blocked by interactive query in inaccessible frame
Recently I found my emacs, which I run as a daemon, in a blocked state.
It would not react to any command. Not C-g, not cursor movements, nothing that I could think of. Then I realized, that I had ...
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How to set name of an Emacs frame?
I am new to Emacs, I use text Emacs (inside Putty) and I am from Vim land. So, bare with me about the terminologies that I use.
I want to have a custom string in the mode line for the frame name (to ...
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swap files created when I open a new frame
When I use C-x 5 2, it opens a new frame showing the same file that I'm already editing. So, every time I open a new frame, I get an unwanted need to "swap" to another file. Is there a way to get ...
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Changing the order of frames
I generated multiple frames by C-x 5 ....
Is there a way to change the order of frame when we visit using C-x 5 o ?
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Relationship between frame, buffer, and file
I am trying to check how frame, buffer, and file work.
It seems to me that frame commands(C-x 5 ...) create a frame,
whether a buffer or file exists or not.
Here is what I am thinking:
C-x 5 2
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Offsetting successive frames
In my init.el I have the below setting for the initial frame position:
(setq default-frame-alist
'((top . 80) (left . 300) (width . 85) (height . 45)))
When I open a file in a new frame, it ...
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resizing frame by window manage under AnyDesk disassociates emacs buffers' dimensions
I'm trying a new (to me) remote desktop tool AnyDesk (v.5.5.4). I'm attaching to Ubuntu18 system at work from a Ubuntu19 system at home. When I resize an emacs frame with the mouse, the menu bar, ...
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Aquamacs: Display *Occur* in current frame
I find that if I run *Occur* on different virtual displays, Aquamacs will reuse whichever frame *Occur* ran in the previous time, often giving me the results I want to see on a display which I am not ...
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How to configure emacs to start in the middle of the screen, and not in the top left corner?
Currently have a GUI version of GNU Emacs v.26.3 (on MacOS Catalina, also have a similar version on Ubuntu 16.04), and because I'm just getting started with the editor, I have this question: how do I ...
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Reference a window with a designated name
I list the current windows with
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle yes
(window-list)
#+end_src
#+RESULTS:
| #<window 14 on 28.Windows.org> | #<window 3 on .emacs.d> |
Then I tried to ...
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Portable way of setting the windows urgent hint?
I've seen links to X11 flag setting that sets the current windows urgent hint.
Is there a portable way to do this in Emacs? Or does it need to be handled per-platform?
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Display minibuffer on all frames
The minibuffer is only displayed on the active window's frame.
For instance, the following creates three frames. The minibuffer shows on the first frame (the initial frame created and, thus, the ...
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Using multiple tty emacsclient with “C-x 5” other frame commands
I'm using emacs in daemon mode on a server and connecting over ssh in a terminal console (tty) window (i.e. no GUI support).
I'm invoking emacsclient using in the tty window (window here refers to OS ...
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Emacs 26.3: Weird frame title issue with KDE
I recently switched to CentOS 7.7, KDE 4.x, and Emacs 26.3. Previously, I was using GNOME and a much older version of Emacs. Before, whenever I opened Emacs, the titlebar of a lone Emacs window was ...
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ESS: display-buffer-alist reusable-frames does not work as expected
I'm trying to use the display-buffer-alist variable to control how Emacs displays spawned inferior shells (ess-r in particular).
I'm using the display-buffer-alist value from ess doc:
(setq display-...
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Linux command line to launch gnuemacs
I would like to launch Emacs by typing a command line in the terminal in Ubuntu linux. I want Emacs to open file a.txt in one frame and another file b.txt in another frame.
I tried the command *emacs ...
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using display-frame-alist to force switch to buffer
Could someone please explain how to use default-frame-alist to make list-buffers switch to the resulting results buffer? list-buffers uses display-buffer so I am thinking that display-buffer-alist is ...
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How do I configure first emacs frame position on startup?
When coding I prefer to have my screen split vertically in two with my editor on the right and reference material or browser opened on the left. This saves me from physically switching workspaces or ...
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Always open buffer in a new frame instead of a window
I found this question which suggested that setting pop-up-frames to a non-nil value should enable this behaviour. However when I added (setq pop-up-frames t) to my emacs init only some of the buffers ...
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How to stop (aquamacs) emacs opening all new buffers in new (gui) window/emacs frame?
I've just upgraded my aquamacs installation and a bunch of packages, and now emacs is opening every new buffer in a new (gui) window (aka emacs frame). I don't like this. I want to have every buffer ...
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automatically open new buffer in new frame
I use tiling window manager and usually prefer it to handle emacs frames instead of using emacs windows. Is there a way I could force emacs to spawn new buffers in new frames automatically? Ideally ...
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How to set extra frames in size?
Whenever I open an info entry in emacs (C-h i) an additional frame pops up. On my system, it is too small and I'd love to have it in the top left corner, being wider and longer as it was created by ...
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ERC, opening query messages in the same frame
I use to have diferent frames for diferent tasks... I'd like to get new private message windows open in the same frame that the rest of the ERC stuff, not in the current focused frame. I'm searching ...
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emacs pinentry in minibuffer prompt blocks other frames?
I use Emacs in a terminal to read email using mu4e, mbsync. I have
PassCmd "gpg2 -q --for-your-eyes-only --no-tty -d ~/.authinfo.gpg | awk '/machine imap.gmail.com login rudolf.sykora@gmail.com/ {...
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Frame number in frame title - how?
I want to use two frames. One on virtual desktop #1 and the other one on #2. I (have to) work on Windows so I would like to see a frame number in the frame title, since Windows lacks a permanently ...
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set-frame-size does not work on emacsclient
I have set up Emacs daemon on Windows 10. My Emacs version is GNU Emacs 25.3.1
I have some code in my init.el which resizes the frame size automatically when Emacs starts up. The code is
;; Select a ...
