On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Edgar Kalkowski<em...@edgar-kalkowski.de> wrote: > Hi Christian! > > Thank you for this tip but I’m afraid it does not work for me. I executed the > commands you suggested and they worked without printing any error (at first > they did because of a typo of mine). The result is that my Emacs window now > starts up quite small in the middle of the screen and the is almost (before > the actual content is drawn) resized to a bigger size. But this also makes it > appear not centered but rather asymmetrical somewhat left of the center of > the screen. > > Perhaps I’ll try my luck on the Emacs help mailing list in a few days or so. > > Edgar >
The starting window size can be specified in .Xresources, e.g. : emacs*geometry: 100x50 That might fix your problem.