From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Negative positions in frame parameters Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:07:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4BC4A4D2.6050800@swipnet.se> References: <4BC4829D.5010202@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271178511 20129 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2010 17:08:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:08:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 13 19:08:26 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 1O1jb8-0008At-5L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:08:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1jb7-0005J7-BD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:08:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1jaJ-0004Yl-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34733 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1jaI-0004Xf-De for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1jaH-0002f1-0y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-b11.telenor.se ([62.127.194.20]:52625) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1jaG-0002eg-P9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (ipb2.telenor.se [195.54.127.165]) by smtprelay-b11.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89268EB31D for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:07:31 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.110] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Arg0AGFBxEtV4S1uPGdsb2JhbACbSwwBAQEBNS29boUNBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,198,1270418400"; d="scan'208";a="62794011" Original-Received: from c-6e2de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.110]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 13 Apr 2010 19:07:31 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.2] (gaffa [172.20.199.2]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ADD87FA01A; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:07:30 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) 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:123585 Archived-At: 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.