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Emacs Full Screen on Startup

20201208 The initial window that Emacs starts can be tuned to suit personal default preferences using initial-frame-alist.

To start with Emacs filling the full screen:

(custom-set-variables
 '(initial-frame-alist (quote ((fullscreen . maximized))))
)

The default for Emacs is:

(custom-set-variables
 '(initial-frame-alist (quote ((top . 1) (left . 1) (width . 80) (height . 55))))
)

For one of my setups, with a laptop on the left and a 34inch monitor on the right, with a conky strip on the left of the monitor, I find the following works to fill half the monitor:

(custom-set-variables
 '(initial-frame-alist (quote ((fullscreen . fullheight) (width . 182) (top . 1) (left . 1700))))
)


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