From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: modify-frame-parameters fails on 'top and 'left Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:27:41 -0700 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <402BD3AD.2070202@yahoo.com> References: <402BBB74.4070700@Sun.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076614117 22593 80.91.224.253 (12 Feb 2004 19:28:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 20:28:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ArMVk-0000QB-00 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:28:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArMVP-0003dQ-G9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:28:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ArMVM-0003d9-KT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:28:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ArMUq-0003TJ-QP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:28:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArMUq-0003So-B0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ArMUn-0007Cm-00 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:27:33 +0100 Original-Received: from 170.207.51.80 ([170.207.51.80]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu Feb 12 19:27:33 2004 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 170.207.51.80 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu Feb 12 19:27:33 2004 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6942 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6942 James Marks wrote: > In GNU Emacs 21.3.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit) > of 2003-05-22 on pkg > configured using `configure --prefix=/pkg/gnu --with-gcc > --x-includes=/usr/openwin/include:/usr/dt/include > --x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/dt/lib --with-x > --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-xpm > --with-tiff --with-jpeg --with-gif --with-png --without-gcc' > Important settings: > value of $LC_ALL: C > value of $LC_COLLATE: nil > value of $LC_CTYPE: C > value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil > value of $LC_MONETARY: nil > value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil > value of $LC_TIME: nil > value of $LANG: C > locale-coding-system: nil > default-enable-multibyte-characters: t > > Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug > and the precise symptoms of the bug: > > (modify-frame-parameters nil '((top . 100) (left . 200))) > > I entered above elisp code into the *scratch* window and ran > eval-last-sexp on it. The frame was positioned at (0, 0) to start. > > The frame appears to jump briefly to (100, 200) and immediately jumps > back to (0, 0). Works for me: In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-pc-solaris2.7, X toolkit) of 2003-04-24 on briard > The same command run under xemacs-21.5-b5 works correctly, leaving the > frame at (100, 200) Irrelevant. -- Kevin Rodgers