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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Get coordinate of point reliably
I need to get the coordinate of point for childframe and currently my approach is this (copied from the manual):
(let* ((pos (posn-at-point point window))
(x-y (posn-x-y pos))
(...
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Why can't OSX handle Emacs client frames
By using the latest Emacs version from 1, it seems that when running in daemon-mode and when opening a new client frame from the terminal or from a custom OSX app I wrote which opens a new frame when ...
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How to set posframe as active?
Is there some option to make frame active when i create it? I can switch to it with this code, but maybe there's a way to do this without select-frame func?
(defun show-misc-posframe ()
(when (...
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switching from tmux + terminal emacs to Emacs only
I am thinking of switching from tmux + terminal emacs (emacs -nw) to just pure emacs. The only thing that is holding me back is tmux offer switching between sessions without switching the terminal ...
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Segmentation fault when creating new frames
I am reproducibly experiencing segmentation faults on Emacs 26.3 under Debian Buster when creating a new frame, which seems to be related to setting fonts for new frames.
In order to illustrate I ...
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How to keep a high-level window configuration?
I use Emacs as a single maximized frame. The monitor is wide enough for two windows to sit together there, with a vertical split. I want this window configuration to be permanent, i.e.:
I want it to ...
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How can I make emacsclient use an existing window in the current frame?
I'm on MS Windows, if that makes a difference.
My desired behavior:
There is only one frame visible at any time.
Visiting a file should use an existing window in that frame.
(This is the default ...
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Prevent menu-bar from expanding too much
The way I have things configured, some Emacs modes end up adding a lot of entries to the menu-bar. As a result, the Emacs frame increases in width. This results in various annoyances.
For now, I've ...
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Bring Emacs frame to front when running emacsclient on WSL
Currently using Emacs on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
I have this alias for emacsclient executable:
alias e='emacsclient -n'
Which I run very often when I am on the terminal (I use ConEmu or ...
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If frame is maximized?
Is it possible (using only emacs-lisp) to find out if the current frame is maximized?
Not fullscreen, but maximized.
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Is frame background considered a face?
I would like to know if Emacs treats empty portions of the frame as faces. I want to know because I wonder if the background of an Emacs frame is drawn separately of other elements on the screen.
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Adding Purpose to Layout Of Emacs
The rigidity to which emacs adheres to its layout is annoying at times. How can i get a layout like this when I shift to the particular modes?
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How do I toggle between current frame size and maximized frame
When I open emacs, the frame size is set to: width 85 and height 40.
Is there a keybinding to toggle between maximizing the frame, and going back to the previous frame size of 85 x 40
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How to solve non-persistence emacs frame title?
Some people had the same issue:
frame title as buffer file resets to default after some time
How to make frame-title-format persistent?
I've tried to change frame-title-format value to:
(setq frame-...
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How prevent `display-buffer` from opening a specific buffer in a new window if and only if it is shown in another frame
I want the *compilation* buffer to not pop up in my main frame when I have it in another frame already open. However if the buffer is not shown anywhere, I do want it to pop up in a new window of the ...
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How to find out if a file is visible for my shell script?
I want to implement a script that I can call from my file explorer to be able to open a new frame with the chosen file (emacsclient -nc $1), but only if the file does not already exist then I simply ...
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How to always show buffer in the new created frame?
My workflow is:
I initialize emacs with a shortcut (in my ~/.i3/config I have a line like this bindcode $mod+49 exec emacsclient -c -n -q -a=''. I use i3wm.org)
By default it goes to temp.org, in ....
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How can I automatically swap frame buffers if the buffer is already open?
I've seen the https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/buffer-move.el script, but I'm trying to something a bit different. Suppose I have a frame with a buffer from file A.h in it and A.cpp in another frame ...
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Reading frame configuration from file
I'm just trying my hands on emacs lisp. So far I've had some luck, but
I'm stuck trying to load my frames configuration into a list.
Here's what I'm trying to do...
I am saving frames configuration (...
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How to change emacs font size on the fly from commandline?
Using 1autorandr for multimonitor detection, the script below is runned
each time I dock my machine. In order to use spacemacs on the 4k monitor I
curently must hit M-x zoom-frm-in.
What command ...
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emacsclient -c stopped working, server running, emacs works
I am encountering a very strange problem. I worked with emacsclient for a while but suddenly, after starting an emacsclient frame the frame disappears shortly after start when interacting with it. It ...
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How to automatically run a command when cursor is at bottom of visible frame?
The recenter command in emacs is recenter-top-bottom which I can invoke using Ctrl-l. How can I call this command automatically every time the cursor is on the fifth-last line in the visible frame?
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macOS-like look and behavior on Linux [closed]
I would like to get macOS-like look and behavior on Linux, e.g. global(app) menu, no border on the top of Emacs window etc. I don't care about fancy icons and themes, but these two features are key ...
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Restoring windows with Desktop when running Emacs inside a terminal? [duplicate]
Maybe a silly question: I'm using desktop for saving Emacs' sessions. I've set
(setq desktop-restore-frames t)
(desktop-save-mode 0)
So windows and frames state is supposed to be saved, and I'm ...
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Is there any command like `other-frame` which behaves like windows's Alt-TAB?
Is there any command like other-frame which behaves like windows's Alt-TAB? And how to create this command?
To clarify this behavior, I wrote python code which virtually emulate this behavior. Each ...
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Launch an emacsclient instance in a new terminal window
I am using Sway/wlroots and I decided to switch to using terminal emacs for the forseeable future as there is no transparency in the xwayland version of emacs.
I previously bound emacs to run as a ...
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If start with maximized frame, why do windows open top &bottom, not side by side?
I have the following in my .emacs:
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(fullscreen . maximized))
And
(add-hook 'window-setup-hook
(lambda ()
(find-file "FILE.org")
(shell)))
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Edit with Emacs chrome extension closing windows
I have the edit with emacs chrome extension.
I have emacs open in one frame with multiple windows on different buffers open. When I am in chrome and focused on a text box I press Alt-Enter. This ...
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How to hide and restore popups in spacemacs GUI mode on OSX?
I tried to do some live coding today and stumbled upon this issue.
The popups for lsp-mode were so big that they covered most of the code. I find the information helpful but I don't know how can I ...
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Inconsistent behaviour on title-format handling
I try to set the frame title to projectile-project-name: buffer-name when focused, projectile-project-name when not.
I use the following title-frame-format and hooks to achieve that behaviour:
(setq ...
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Why some frame-parameters don't work when calling display-buffer-in-child-frame?
Why some of a frame parameters don't work in a function below, for example (minibuffer . nil), but they all work if i use make-frame function.
(defun create-nframe ()
(let ((buffer (generate-new-...
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Can frames be blacklisted so they are skipped by other-frame
Is there a way to blacklist a set of frames so that other-frame ignores / skips them?
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Disable mouse drag to select
I often run into an issue where I will click in a Emacs frame to make it active and accidentally slide my cursor so that it changes from a click to a drag. This means that some text is highlighted ...
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Docking a matplotlib window-manager window to an Emacs window
Short version:
I want a way to "dock" a matplotlib window-manager window into an Emacs window (similar to the image below), while still keeping the functionality (e.g. zooming) offered by matplotlib.
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How to make emacs work well with tiling window managers?
Under some conditions Emacs will try to resize a frame if its not fullscreen or maximized.
(specifically default-text-scale, but I don't think its the only one).
This sends window-manager window (...
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Possible to save winner history winner-ring-alist in savehist or desktop-save to save across sessions
I added in the following command to my .emacs but it doesn't seem to work:
(add-to-list 'savehist-additional-variables 'winner-ring-alist)
Is there a way to get the winner-undo history to save ...
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Why doesn't set-background-color work in my init file?
I have an init file for Emacs located at /home/username/.emacs.d/init.el and it has the command (set-background-color "honeydew").
However, when I open Emacs the color has obviously not changed from ...
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full-frame helm?
Is it possible to run something like helm-recentf or helm-mini in a way that the helm window occupies the entire frame when it's running, and then disappears afterwards (like the helm windows normally ...
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Set a title to an Emacs instance running in a terminal
On Ubuntu, I usually open more than one Emacs instances in the same time (for frontend and back development). These instances always by default take the name "Terminal" as a title as shown on this ...
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Distinct frame size for internal and external monitors
It's possible to add a line to one's .emacs
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(fullscreen . maximized))
that will make make-frame-command (C-x 5 2) spawn maximized windows.
It's also possible to ...
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org-capture frame with no splits
I want to be able to launch a new emacsclient and issue org-capture in it. I have created this simple function:
(defun make-orgcapture-frame ()
"Create a new frame and run org-capture."
(...
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Gui won't start, throws an “Args out of range: 0, 100”
The only response I got is this:
Weird behavior: GUI won't start, but terminal emacs will
But he doesn't clarify on the solution. I have the same problem, my .Xdefaults and/or .Xresources causes ...
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How quick switch between frames?
windows 10, emacs 26.1
I open 4 frames.
How I can quick switch between them?
I need smt like this:
C-1 -> switch to frame#1
C-2 -> switch to frame#2
and so on.
I use ace-window but it not very ...
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How to get desktop-read to ignore/modify frame size?
I'm using (desktop-save-mode 1) to save a session which I then reload, but logging in remotely from a different machine with a different resolution display. Something stored in the desktop winds up ...
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Show file names with the full path in the frame title
I want to set the frame title as follows:
When the current buffer is visiting a file, show the full path name and the Emacs version.
When the current buffer has no file, then show the buffer name and ...
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Modifying internal-border-width messes up UI
When I am modifying the internal-border-width of the selected frame the "resizing" happens but for example the minibuffer and the modeline are not visible anymore. They are there but offscreen:
As ...
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How to save and restore frame zoom settings
Due to DPI differences, every time I switch between working on my laptop screen vs external display, I need to adjust frame zoom levels (SPC z f in spacemacs). I would love to be able to persist the ...
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How to make the background color of `x-show-tip` defined in `pos-tip.el` transparent?
I found the flycheck-pos-tip package uses a function defined in pos-tip-show which uses a built-in function: x-show-tip.
I want to change the background color of x-show-tip to be transparent.
There ...
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Switch to last window
I am trying to use the code from this answer:
Is there a generic toggle-previous-window function?
(defun switch-to-last-window ()
(interactive)
(let ((win (get-mru-window t t t)))
(unless win ...
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make frames and open specific buffers in succession
im trying to launch emacs with specific named frames and want each frame to have a specific buffer opened in a specific frame (ie have the frame named FM opned a dired buffer at `~/~)
this is my ...
