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 19:14:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4BC4A67F.3060400@swipnet.se> References: <87y6gr30i0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87633v72e5.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> 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 1271178903 21677 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2010 17:15:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:15:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Lennart Borgman , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 13 19:15:01 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 1O1jhV-0002wg-C7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:15:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46269 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1jhO-0007Ln-1S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:14:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1jhJ-0007LQ-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:14:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42424 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1jhI-0007LG-0T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:14:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1jhF-0003vT-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:14:47 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-h11.telenor.se ([62.127.194.4]:34631) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1jhF-0003v7-70; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:14:45 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb3.telenor.se (ipb3.telenor.se [195.54.127.166]) by smtprelay-h11.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C55EB33B; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:14:44 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.110] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiFDAH1DxEtV4S1uPGdsb2JhbACHZpNlDAEBAQE1Lb4AhQ0E X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,198,1270418400"; d="scan'208";a="507167799" Original-Received: from c-6e2de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.110]) by ipb3.telenor.se with ESMTP; 13 Apr 2010 19:14:40 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.2] (gaffa [172.20.199.2]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA7F7FA01A; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:14:39 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) In-Reply-To: <87633v72e5.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> 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:123587 Archived-At: Jason Rumney skrev: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > >> > At least on w32 you can have the upper left corner outside of the >> > screen. >> >> You can in X, too, but it's rarely useful for top-level windows. > > I'm not sure if Xinerama or RandR works like this, but with multiple monitor > setups on Windows, you can choose to put the secondary montitor to the > left and/or above the primary monitor, in which case all coordinates on > that monitor become negative. So its not as useless as it might > initially seem. > AFAIK, in X the top left corner is always at 0, 0. There is no concept of primary or secondary monitor, there are just monitors. There is a primary screen though. Jan D.