From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:29:51 +0300 Message-ID: <8361fxm1xs.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412623832 27358 80.91.229.3 (6 Oct 2014 19:30:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 19:30:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 18637@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 06 21:30:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDz7-0008BL-6M for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 21:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDz6-000830-PW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35925) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDyz-0007yO-7Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:30:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDyt-0000mt-Vr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDyt-0000mY-SC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDyt-0003bT-DZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:30:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:30:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18637 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 18637-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18637.141262378813810 (code B ref 18637); Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:30:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18637) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Oct 2014 19:29:48 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36014 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDyd-0003ad-Kx for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:29:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:38498) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDya-0003aT-Da for 18637@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:29:45 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ND100L00EYYQY00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 18637@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:29:42 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ND100L27FHIQA30@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:29:42 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:94215 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 10:25:31 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: 18637@debbugs.gnu.org > > > > Which function tells you what monitor is showing a given frame (on > > > MS Windows)? > > > > frame-monitor-attributes, if I understand what you want. > > I see that that function returns some information about (attributes > of) the monitor that is most associated with the argument frame. And > I see that one of the attributes is `name'. Presumably, monitors > would be distinguished by this parameter. If you need to distinguish them, which should be very rarely. > However, it is an optional parameter, so I can't imagine that one can > count on it to distinguish monitors. (Just why is it optional?) I guess it's optional because not all windowing systems support it. It is always present on MS-Windows, AFAIK. > If one cannot count on `name', how is the identity of monitors > determined? Do you just go by the particular cons of attributes > that is returned by `frame-monitor-attributes'? Depends on what you need this for.