From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Negative positions in frame parameters
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:26:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ochns79i.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4BC4829D.5010202@swipnet.se
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> Lennart Borgman skrev 2010-04-13 15.33:
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Stefan Monnier
>> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> 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
>
> The problem in Emacs is how do you say the equivalent to
>
> -geometry --10--10, -geometry +-10+-10
>
> in frame parameters?
(make-frame '((right . -10) (bottom . -10)))
(make-frame '((left . -10) (top . -10)))
would seem like a reasonably obvious way.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-13 15:26 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 [this message]
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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