Why does cinnamon expand my emacs?

[bimargulies]

Every time I launch gnu emacs 24, it resizes itself to be nearly full-screen. Even if I run the following command:

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    /usr/bin/emacs24 -q --no-site-file --geometry 80x24

it still auto-expands. No other application exhibits this behavior.

I have 17.2, latest cinnamon patch that came through the update manager.

[DrHu]

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uemacs.htm
--any of these settings work: perhaps there is something, apart from the Cinnamon (desktop) interaction you describe..

• I see geomentry 80x24 is default anyway

[mellobob]

I know that "it works here" doesn't help much ... but it does.

Have you checked to see if you have anything in your .Xdefaults or .Xresources file(s) which could be setting the geometry?

[bimargulies]

Ironically:

.Xresources:

XTerm*faceSize: 36
Emacs*geometry: 80x24

Nothing in .Xdefaults.

[bimargulies]

It might be relevant that this is Mint 17.2 64 bit, installed originally as Xfce, now cinnamon, with hidpi turned on, running in a VMware VM atop MacOSX on a retina MBP

[mellobob]

Have you tried creating a new user and running emacs from there? If it works properly as a new user, then you know it's something in your personal directory. In that case I'd start copying config files from your dir to the new user dir and see when emacs breaks. I would start with a copy of .emacs and .emacs.d.

Hope this helps.