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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 30074@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30074: 26.0; Add function(s) for current monitor info
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:07:57 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3dfc61af-838b-49e0-bd81-2cc3ed89fb04@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1cky0e5.fsf@mouse.gnus.org>

> > Please consider adding a function that returns the info describing the
> > monitor that dominates a frame (default: selected frame).  In
> > particular, the size of the monitor.  This can be useful, for example,
> > for positioning a frame when there are multiple monitors.
> >
> > I've been using this, but you might have a better implementation in
> > mind:
> >
> > (defun current-monitor (&optional frame)
> >   "Attributes of monitor that dominates FRAME (default: `selected-frame')."
> >   (catch 'current-monitor
> >     (dolist (atts  (display-monitor-attributes-list frame))
> >       (when (member (or frame  (selected-frame)) (cdr (assq 'frames atts)))
> >         (throw 'current-monitor atts)))
> >     nil))                              ; Should never happen (?)
> 
> I guess it's possible for a frame to be on several monitors?  (Half on
> one and half on another.)  What would this function return in that case?

I'm not in front of multiple monitors now.  Perhaps
I can check later, when I am.

In any case, all we have, AFAIK, is
`display-monitor-attributes-list'.  It decides what
it returns.  Attribute `frames' is described thus:

"frames -- List of frames dominated by the physical monitor"

For the same frame to be "dominated" by more than
one monitor I would wonder what good the word
"dominated" could possibly do here.  It suggests
that one of the monitors dominates a given frame.

Anyway, I'll try to remember to check, when I'm
in the presence of > 1 monitor, unless someone
beats me to it.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-14 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-10 23:08 bug#30074: 26.0; Add function(s) for current monitor info Drew Adams
2019-07-14 17:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-14 19:49   ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-15 10:13     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-15 15:21       ` Drew Adams
2019-07-15 15:25         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-15 16:17           ` Drew Adams
2019-07-15 16:05         ` Andy Moreton
2019-07-15 16:24           ` Drew Adams
2019-07-15 16:35             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-15 16:42             ` Andy Moreton
2019-07-14 22:07   ` Drew Adams [this message]

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