Emacs: Start window default size

dit or create ~/.Xdefaults

Put something like this in it:

Code:

Emacs.geometry: 80x30+0+30

Save the file. This should make emacs open a window which is 80 characters wide, 30 lines tall, and shifted 0 pixels to the right and 30 pixels down from the upper left corner.

Then in a terminal run:

Code:

xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults

Launch emacs.