From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Negative positions in frame parameters
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:12:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6gr30i0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <t2ke01d8a51004130633j1c81c6edp6698a08523f369f5@mail.gmail.com>
Lennart Borgman writes:
> 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?
This is just the traditional behavior on X11 displays. Negative
position coordinates are relative to the bottom-right corner, positive
ones to the top-left.
> 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. The
ability to place the window on the right or bottom of the screen is
often useful. IME YMMV, of course; I'm just explaining where the
tradition comes from, not advocating it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-13 14:12 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 [this message]
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
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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