From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Negative positions in frame parameters Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:26:49 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87ochns79i.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <4BC4829D.5010202@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271173049 29897 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2010 15:37:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:37:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 13 17:37:28 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 1O1iB6-0004Uz-8S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:37:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33009 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1iB5-0004VD-L1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:37:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1i6h-0002yQ-9Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42448 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1i6e-0002hu-1h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1i12-000798-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33863) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1i12-00078p-7Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:27:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1i0w-00079w-Ob for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:26:58 +0200 Original-Received: from p5b2c1f71.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.31.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:26:58 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c1f71.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:26:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c1f71.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vm8x/2P5Jcxrx7iqvaqmyBFUB68= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:123574 Archived-At: Jan Djärv writes: > Lennart Borgman skrev 2010-04-13 15.33: >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Stefan Monnier >> 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