emacs immediately minimizes to panel
I've developed a weird problem over the last couple of weeks that has me stumped. If I start up emacs (using alt-f2 or desktop application icon or in terminal window) it almost always immediately minimizes down to the panel and i have to click on it down there to get it to open properly. This doesn't happen to other programs and in fact once in a while (5% of time?) emacs opens properly although I can't detect any pattern. This problem started out of the blue and I can't figure out where to look to fix it. Could someone please point me to a config file or whatever that might be causing this? TIA, Patrick -- Issawi's Laws of Progress: The Course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse. The Path of Progress: A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
Patrick, On Monday 23 August 2004 09:30, Patrick John Hays wrote:
I've developed a weird problem over the last couple of weeks that has me stumped. If I start up emacs (using alt-f2 or desktop application icon or in terminal window) it almost always immediately minimizes down to the panel and i have to click on it down there to get it to open properly. This doesn't happen to other programs and in fact once in a while (5% of time?) emacs opens properly although I can't detect any pattern.
This problem started out of the blue and I can't figure out where to look to fix it. Could someone please point me to a config file or whatever that might be causing this?
Might you have logged out or shut down while Emacs was running with its window minimized to the Taskbar? Are you running KDE 3.3? If so, had you, prior to the KDE 3.3 upgrade told KDE to remember the window configuration for Emacs? If so, then the upgrade to 3.3 caused that remembered window configuration to be converted to a KDE 3.3 Window-Specific Setting, which by default sets things like window minimized state to be remembered.
TIA, Patrick
Randall Schulz
Patrick wrote regarding '[SLE] emacs immediately minimizes to panel' on Mon, Aug 23 at 11:30:
I've developed a weird problem over the last couple of weeks that has me stumped. If I start up emacs (using alt-f2 or desktop application icon or in terminal window) it almost always immediately minimizes down to the panel and i have to click on it down there to get it to open properly. This doesn't happen to other programs and in fact once in a while (5% of time?) emacs opens properly although I can't detect any pattern.
This problem started out of the blue and I can't figure out where to look to fix it. Could someone please point me to a config file or whatever that might be causing this?
That's the first time I can recall seeing reference to emacs "minimizing" anything... :) Anyway, in KDE 3.2, you can right click on the titlebar of the window once you have it where you want it, and in the "advanced" menu, click "store window settings". Other KDEs may be different, but Randall's reply gets you on the right track... That's likely stored somewhere in ~/.kde, but you'll probably have to do something like "grep -i -r emacs ~.kde" to find it. --Danny
On Monday 23 August 2004 6:01 pm, Danny Sauer wrote:
Patrick wrote regarding '[SLE] emacs immediately minimizes to panel' on Mon, Aug 23 at 11:30:
I've developed a weird problem over the last couple of weeks that has me stumped. If I start up emacs (using alt-f2 or desktop application icon or in terminal window) it almost always immediately minimizes down to the panel and i have to click on it down there to get it to open properly. This doesn't happen to other programs and in fact once in a while (5% of time?) emacs opens properly although I can't detect any pattern.
This problem started out of the blue and I can't figure out where to look to fix it. Could someone please point me to a config file or whatever that might be causing this?
That's the first time I can recall seeing reference to emacs "minimizing" anything... :)
Anyway, in KDE 3.2, you can right click on the titlebar of the window once you have it where you want it, and in the "advanced" menu, click "store window settings". Other KDEs may be different, but Randall's reply gets you on the right track...
That's likely stored somewhere in ~/.kde, but you'll probably have to do something like "grep -i -r emacs ~.kde" to find it.
--Danny
-- Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, it is damn near zero. -- David Ellis I tried your suggestion of storing the window settings but it didn't work. Then I got to thinking (sort of) and realized that I had shut down the emacs window using the close window "icon" in the window border so I tried your suggestion a second time but on the second go-around used the "exit emacs" file menu option and voila the problem seems to have gone away. I thank you for your help. Sometimes its the little things that make one appreciate other people's kindness...) Patrick
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