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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Negative positions in frame parameters
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:09:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk4sbmj3l.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC4829D.5010202@swipnet.se> ("Jan Djärv"'s message of "Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:41:33 +0200")

>>> 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

So where was the change made that caused this new behavior?
In Emacs's code or in some external library?

> The problem in Emacs is how do you say the equivalent to
>   -geometry --10--10, -geometry +-10+-10
> in frame parameters?

David was quicker than I, so I'll just +1 on his suggestion, except that
it's incompatible with previous behavior.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-13 16:09 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
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 [this message]
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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