From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Negative positions in frame parameters Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:09:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4BC4829D.5010202@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271175684 8472 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2010 16:21:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:21:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 13 18:21:22 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 1O1irX-0001dx-7V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:21:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33243 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1irW-0005Xs-FU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:21:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1ihu-0001rn-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33737 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1ihq-0000uP-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1igF-0007cK-TB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:09:41 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:42217) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1igF-0007cC-PJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:09:39 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o3DG9av8020417; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:09:36 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B4629B43C0; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:09:36 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4BC4829D.5010202@swipnet.se> ("Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv=22?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?'s?= message of "Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:41:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3512=0 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:123579 Archived-At: >>> 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