Re: fullscreen and gnome

[Patrick Drechsler]

Jan Djärv wrote:
> Patrick Drechsler skrev:
> > Jan Djärv wrote:
> > > Patrick Drechsler skrev:
> > > > Jan Djärv wrote:
> > > > > It does not, this is all the window manager doing stuff, in fact 
> > > > > Emacs just tells the window manager, "make me fullscreen" and then 
> > > > > the window manager does what it like.
> > > >
> > > > Fair enough. Is there a proposed way of accomplishing the 
> > > > semi-fullscreen effect I am after?
> > >
> > > Does not clicking on the window manager maximize button in the title 
> > > bar do that?
> >
> > Yes, of course. I thought that there might be an option which I could 
> > pass to Emacs. I'll use the --geometry option instead.
>
> If it is just metacity, I think this will do what you want (at least it 
> does on the version of metacity with FC5):
[...functional code...]

Thank you Jan, your example code works fine. But as mentioned in my 
original post I was looking for a solution which is independent of the 
window manager/OS in use. I guess I'll just stick with the --geometry 
parameter.

Thanks

Patrick