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#### 6.8.3 Changing the sizes of the special ECB-windows

The standard width and height of the special ECB-windows is defined with the options `ecb-windows-width` and `ecb-windows-height`. But changing these options always influences all layouts which is not always desired.

ECB offers to re-adjust the width and height of the ECB-windows (e.g. by dragging the windows-borders via the mouse) and then saving exactly these current window-sizes for the current layout so after activating this layout all windows have autom. the stored sizes.

This is done via the option `ecb-layout-window-sizes` and the commands `ecb-store-window-sizes`, `ecb-restore-window-sizes` and `ecb-restore-default-window-sizes`.

Here is an example how to resize and store the sizes of the ECB-windows of layout “left1”:

1. Switch to layout “left1” via `ecb-change-layout` (`C-c . lc`)
2. Resize the ECB-windows by dragging the window-borders with the mouse
3. Call `ecb-store-window-sizes`

After this layout “left1” will be always drawn with the new sizes until you call `ecb-restore-default-window-sizes` during layout “left1” is active.

Please note: `ecb-store-window-sizes` stores the width and height of the windows per default as fractions of the width (rsp. height) of the ECB-frame, so the stored sizes are always correct regardless of the current frame-size! But if called with a prefix argument then fixed sizes are stored.