Starting Emacs in Chrome OS Flex in the center full-height

Faerryn · 2022-11-16 05:40

Assuming that you installed Emacs in ChromeOS's Linux VM, it may be impossible; ChromeOS implements a Wayland protocol (that affects both X11 and Wayland apps in the Linux VM). Wayland doesn't allow programs to position themselves (out of security concerns). There may be Wayland extensions that allow Wayland-native apps to position themselves on certain Wayland compositors, but since Emacs is X11, it cannot position itself. There *is* a PGTK (pure GTK) branch of Emacs that you could try compiling yourself and see whether that brings any benefits or not. I wouldn't count on it. A fun thing you could try with PGTK is to use the BROADWAY gdk backend, which allows gtk apps to be rendered in a browser; maybe ChromeOS will let you customize browser placements, maybe no.

Faerryn · 2022-11-17 06:41

You may need to install the `broadwayd`package for what that's worth. I never use it and have only heard about it on the interwebs, so your mileage may vary.