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Description: [Elisp] maxframe provides the ability to maximize the emacs frame and stay within the display resolution.
Homepage: http://www.emacsblog.org/2007/02/22/maximize-on-startup-part-2/
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;; Purpose
;; -------
;; maxframe provides the ability to maximize the emacs frame and stay within
;; the display resolution.
;;
;; Usage
;; -----
;; Example of lines to be added to your .emacs:
;;
;;     (require 'maxframe)
;;     (add-hook 'window-setup-hook 'maximize-frame t)
;;
;; If using two framebuffers (monitors), it might be necesssary to specify a
;; mf-max-width value set to the pixel width of main framebuffer.  This is
;; necessary because emacs does not yet support sniffing different
;; framebuffers.  Example:
;;
;;     (require 'maxframe)
;;     (setq mf-max-width 1600)  ;; Pixel width of main monitor.
;;     (add-hook 'window-setup-hook 'maximize-frame t)
;;
;; To restore the frame to it's original dimensions, call restore-frame:
;;
;;     M-x restore-frame
;;
;; How it works
;; ------------
;; puts the emacs frame in the top left corner of the display and calculates
;; the maximum number of columns and rows that can fit in the display
;;
;; Limitations
;; -----------
;; Requires Emacs 22 (for fringe support), but maximize-frame still works
;; under Emacs 21 on Windows.
;;
;; Emacs does not recognize when the display's resolution is changed. This is
;; a problem because I would like to be able to re-maximize the frame after
;; connecting to a display with different resolution. Unfortunately,
;; display-pixel-width and display-pixel-height yield the display resolution
;; values from when emacs was started instead of the current display
;; values. Perhaps there's a way to have emacs re-sniff these values, but I'm
;; not yet sure how.
;;
;; Credits
;; -------
;; The w32 specific functions were borrowed from the Emacs Manual:
;; http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/big.html#windows-like-window-ops