Emacs and window geometry

[August Karlstrom]

August Karlstrom wrote:
> On my system Emacs always starts with a maximized window and ignores my 
> window geometry settings in `~/.emacs'. Is somebody else experiencing 
> the same problem?

The problem only seems to occur with screen resolution 800x600. A 
workaround is to specify the window size with e.g.

    (set-frame-size (selected-frame) 80 41)

rather than setting `height' in `default-frame-alist'.


August