From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Negative positions in frame parameters Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:17:38 +0800 Message-ID: <87633v72e5.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> References: <87y6gr30i0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271175889 9257 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2010 16:24:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:24:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 13 18:24:47 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 1O1iuo-0003Sf-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:24:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40147 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1iun-0001nD-Ai for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:24:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1ioa-0003vd-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:18:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44199 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1ioX-0003p1-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1io7-0000Pc-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:17:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:55835) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1io7-0000PG-Qp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:17:47 -0400 Original-Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so1803495wyg.0 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:17:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:received:from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=/YqslfV/baVRMMr1895LaLf3fOJu/Jnat4uijwN1WlU=; b=MCmmlp602mO+Ws9MKuc9S6YM7nNErTtfevenDECTdMjeWykUdEP44DHnjQlZP9SrOu fSVgwYtYGCwcRGO8GBNbphdRFj9DxRIbNV84qS86jBzj2RbDRvxLJ6c+DWAabHGggfR4 FSk0mPR4AuYKaBqNSdjt9ntZvfz2LSkpSPELc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=yFDoHEDQ9Wcd7nASPMQ2xqZUrZDZwWy9dsKeFO90L2JlgOdRS7r2GfU83Yu7LaCMfs /hLKoksdV8yn2L2HO4w45v3EwT1sKv7MQLlsOvjebOlw2qXGKqu243UfAAqI/pnfh7ck vrZ4Y4jHw27la8keCkEQ8zkSkSYzeh9mTX3ak= Original-Received: by 10.216.169.194 with SMTP id n44mr3597885wel.10.1271175466163; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:17:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([202.87.221.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t27sm1743270wbc.5.2010.04.13.09.17.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:17:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9F7B6701; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:17:38 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: <87y6gr30i0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:12:07 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:123581 Archived-At: "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.