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Is it possible for emacs to appear on right side of the desktop area when invoking it from the command line?

My standard programming mode is to have a bash shell open on the left side of my desktop and to have emacs open on the right side. However, when I type emacs "filename" in to my shell, it comes up on ...
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Settings for Gnome-Shell Window Focus + “It's all text” Firefox Extension + emacs [closed]

I have the following setup: Ubuntu 11.10 gnome-shell emacs 23 Firefox with "It's all text" extension The purpose of the "It's all text" extension is so that I can edit firefox text fields in an ...
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How can I run emacs in gnome terminal without popup interface?

Just like using emacs on putty. I just transfered to Ubuntu from windows. I also got error message when I tried to open a matlab .m file using emacs. Code: emacs job.m 701 $ emacs job.m Warning: ...
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I can't change the keybinding theme from emacs to default in gnome tweak tool

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 Gnome Shell. I have changed the keybinding theme from Default to emacs using Gnome Tweak Tool. For some reason I can't change it back to default. Has anyone encountered this ...
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Screen repaint problem with emacs and terminals [closed]

When I'm using emacs in ubuntu 11.10, I have the following problem: I navigate with C-N and C-P, sometimes screen is not correctly updated and I see the text garbled. Sometimes I have a similar ...
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Application specific environment variable settings

I'm trying to work around a known bug in Ubuntu 9.10, where using the scrollbar in emacs causes text to be highlighted, and the cursor to move. This page here shows that you can fix this by setting an ...
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An alternative to the Super key on an old keyboard

I've got a classic M-series IBM keyboard that I want to put to a use. However, it does not have a Windows (a.k.a Super) key, that I use for many windows-manager-related shortcuts. On top of it, I ...