From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, sbaugh@catern.com, 62164@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62164: 29.0.60; ediff behaves poorly by default on tiling window managers
Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 22:15:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ild19uzd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ierfs85fji8.fsf@janestreet.com> (message from Spencer Baugh on Tue, 09 May 2023 14:27:11 -0400)
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, 62164@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 14:27:11 -0400
>
> +(defcustom ediff-x-utility-control-frame nil
> + "If non-nil, the control frame is a utility window under X.
> +
> +This is useful in tiling window managers, where this will cause
> +the control frame to be floating rather than tiled. It should be
> +harmless on other well-behaved window managers."
If this option causes the control frame to be floating rather than
tiled, the name of the option should reflect that. Using "utility" in
the name of the variable makes the option less self-explanatory,
because that technical terms is not relevant on the user level.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-09 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-13 16:44 bug#62164: 29.0.60; ediff behaves poorly by default on tiling window managers Spencer Baugh
2023-03-14 0:59 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-14 1:00 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-16 15:07 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-03-17 1:56 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-02 1:53 ` sbaugh
2023-04-02 5:55 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-02 11:33 ` sbaugh
2023-05-09 18:27 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-05-09 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-06-05 21:56 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-06-05 23:51 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-06 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-28 1:13 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-06-28 1:25 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-28 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-28 12:55 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-06-28 13:40 ` Robert Pluim
2023-07-03 19:21 ` sbaugh
2023-07-06 7:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-14 3:06 ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-14 13:13 ` Phil Sainty
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