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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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 ...
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In-sync editing the same file in two frames
For a lecture, I'll have a setup with two frames (one on my notebooks's screen, the other on the projector) showing the same file. When editing the file in the "master" frame I need the "slave" frame ...
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Simultaenously viewing two different Info areas
I'd like to have two emacs frames simultaneously open, with the first frame showing the Info(elisp tutorial) and the second frame showing the Info(elisp manual). After setting the first frame and ...
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Mirror a frame to a projector screen
When using an external monitor/projector with Emacs, I use the Extend option (rather than Duplicate). Then I duplicate my work frame with C-x 5 2, that is make-frame-command, and I move the duplicate ...
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extra frame in (visible-frame-list) when started in daemon mode, is causing problems
When I start emacs (emacs), and then eval (visible-frame-list), I get a list with one frame, the one that is visable. However if I start emacs as a daemon (emacs --daemon), and then eval (visible-...
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Have compilation errors / grep match reuse current frame/window without ever splitting it?
I have searched in a number of places (1, 2, 3, 4) even looked at the e-lisp source files and could not figure out how to do, so I ask.
Context
I have bound next-error to a key. I'm in some source ...
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ace-window: How can I switch to a frame I can't see?
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1
When I want to switch between windows I user M-x ace-window and then select number. Nice.
But I also want to switch to a frame that isn't visible. I can guess what number to ...
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Minimize emacs on Windows with Meta-Space, n?
I'd like to minimize emacs on Windows, when I press the Alt-Space, then n keys, just like with other Windows programs (because Alt-Space opens the program's menu that includes the 'Mi_n_imize' option, ...
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Show the current command line the frame title in a GDB session
I sometimes run multiple instances of Emacs, each running a GDB session. These GDB sessions are often running different versions of the same program, or the same program with different arguments, so I'...
