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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Negative positions in frame parameters
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:17:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87633v72e5.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6gr30i0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:12:07 +0900")

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> 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.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-13 16:17 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 [this message]
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
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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