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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:25:15 +0200
From:      Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>
To:        Ashish SHUKLA <ashish@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Emacs splash screen went to textmode only
Message-ID:  <20100721222515.14814f2m7z400qsk@webmail.df.eu>
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Quoting Ashish SHUKLA <ashish@FreeBSD.org>:

> Well I use a tiling WM (Xmonad), and to reproduce your issue, I started 12
> instances of 'xterm' and then started an Emacs instance with '-q
> -no-site-file' which caused Emacs to start with a smaller window  
> where I got a
> non-fancy splash screen.
>
> Try starting your Emacs in full-screen mode .e.g. 'emacs -fs'.
>

That works indeed. That is, I just have to make sure Emacs starts up  
with a sufficient frame height. emacs -g 80x40 is all it takes.

Thanks a lot for your help!
Markus


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