How to maximize Emacs on Windows at startup?

Question

This is driving me crazy: I simply want Emacs to maximize to whatever screen resolution I have at startup. Ideally I like a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) solution tha

Answer 1

On X.org the system call is (since you asked originally for a cross-platform solution):

(defun x11-maximize-frame ()
  "Maximize the current frame (to full screen)"
  (interactive)
  (x-send-client-message nil 0 nil "_NET_WM_STATE" 32 '(2 "_NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_HORZ" 0))
  (x-send-client-message nil 0 nil "_NET_WM_STATE" 32 '(2 "_NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_VERT" 0)))

Answer 2

(defun resize-frame ()
"Set size"
(interactive)
(set-frame-width (selected-frame) 110)
(set-frame-height (selected-frame) 33)
(set-frame-position (selected-frame) 0 1))

following is the last function called in my .emacs files it sets the height and width of the screen it does work on both emacs 22 and emacs 23 on debian and mac os x. set the height and width numbers according to your screen.

Answer 3

emacs-full-screen-win32 project will help you :)

Answer 4

To disable the toolbar, add the line

(tool-bar-mode nil)

to your customization file (usually .emacs in your root directory).

Answer 5

Dudes, what's wrong with

emacs -mm ?

This starts Emacs fully maximized. Put it in your shortcut, it really depends on the window manager you use ; I myself just alias it in my .*shrc.

On a different but not unrelated note, I in fact start Emacs in a way that if it's already started, the selected file is just opened as a new buffer in my existing Emacs session :

if [ "$(pidof emacs)" ] ; then
    emacsclient "$@"
else
    emacs -mm "$@"
fi

This I put in a ~/bin/e and I just launch Emacs with "e". I right-clicked a text file in the file manager, selected "open with another program" and entered "e", and now I just double click files and they all open neatly in the same session.

And everything is peachy and lispy :)

Answer 6

This is the simplest fix that worked for me:

(w32-send-sys-command #xf030)
(add-hook 'window-setup-hook (lambda () (tool-bar-mode -1)))