From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIERqw6Rydg==?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Negative positions in frame parameters Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:41:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4BC4829D.5010202@swipnet.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271169709 15244 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2010 14:41:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:41:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 13 16:41:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1hJC-0006yH-Dh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:41:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49431 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1hJB-0003uU-Pc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:41:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1hJ6-0003tN-4G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34163 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1hJ4-0003t8-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1hJ3-0000jF-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-b11.telenor.se ([62.127.194.20]:45333) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1hJ3-0000j4-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:41:37 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb1.telenor.se (ipb1.telenor.se [195.54.127.164]) by smtprelay-b11.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8120C015 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:41:35 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.110] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AitBAJYfxEtV4S1uPGdsb2JhbACDFJg1DAEBAQE1LatEkUOBLIJzbgQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,197,1270418400"; d="scan'208";a="62747406" Original-Received: from c-6e2de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.110]) by ipb1.telenor.se with ESMTP; 13 Apr 2010 16:41:35 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.13] (zeplin [172.20.199.13]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ADFFA7FA01A; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:41:34 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123571 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman skrev 2010-04-13 15.33: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Stefan Monnier > wrote: >> Recently >> >> (make-frame '((left . -10) (top . -10))) >> >> stopped placing the frame in the bottom-right corner of the screen (at >> least in the Gtk build). >> >> Could someone fix it? > > Why should it go to the bottom-right corner? At least on w32 you can > have the upper left corner outside of the screen. > http://www.xfree86.org/current/X.7.html#sect6 The problem in Emacs is how do you say the equivalent to -geometry --10--10, -geometry +-10+-10 in frame parameters? Jan D.