From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Negative positions in frame parameters
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:07:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC4A4D2.6050800@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk4sbmj3l.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier skrev:
>>>> 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
>
> So where was the change made that caused this new behavior?
> In Emacs's code or in some external library?
What new behaviour? The bug was in Emacs code.
>
>> The problem in Emacs is how do you say the equivalent to
>> -geometry --10--10, -geometry +-10+-10
>> in frame parameters?
>
> David was quicker than I, so I'll just +1 on his suggestion, except that
> it's incompatible with previous behavior.
>
And there already is a way.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-13 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-13 13:24 Negative positions in frame parameters Stefan Monnier
2010-04-13 13:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-13 14:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-13 16:17 ` Jason Rumney
2010-04-13 17:14 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-13 17:33 ` Drew Adams
2010-04-13 14:41 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-13 15:26 ` David Kastrup
2010-04-13 16:31 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-13 17:02 ` Drew Adams
2010-04-13 23:41 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-04-14 4:51 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-13 16:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-13 17:07 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2010-04-13 15:18 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-13 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-13 17:08 ` Jan Djärv
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