From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: positioning of window in X no more possible Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:20:44 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87pr92ofmr.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <0E8DC666-96D6-4436-BC60-6BF9DF6A0EE3@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254703370 6354 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2009 00:42:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 00:42:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 02:42:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mubf3-0007C9-Bs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:42:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37591 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mubf3-0003qf-Ab for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:42:45 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:55IE0/9jUApIqz8S/k525GU1E2A= Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83cda6bd.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=f[2?D]5=1db:LXj0CA`3KmL?0kYOcDh@jEE63Zc8>Ueg; :jf9eidEkb_a[HFBB\7ZmS@h9:Nan9?b Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173577 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68672 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 04.10.2009 um 09:32 schrieb Peter Münster: > >> On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, Peter Dyballa wrote: >> >>> How does it work when you additionally add the -Q option? >> >> Hello Peter, >> >> The problem is the same with the -Q option. > > > Does "xrdb -q | egrep -i 'emacs|geom'" show something? > > GNU Emacs 23.1, when launched with -Q, should still follow X resources. Its help lists -g as meaning the same as --geometry. How does this work instead of -g? Does the variable command-line-args contain the command line arguments? What is the command 'which emacs' returning? And what is 'file `which emacs`' telling? Does 'emacs -- > help' work? > > -- I messed the orriginal post, but just in case its not been made clear, window placement (frames in emacs terminology) is managed by the window manager. Emacs can provide 'hints' in the form of geometry specification, which may or may not be honoured by the window manager. In some cases, the window manager may only use part of the information. For example, it may honour the geometry size request, but ignore placement directives or use the placement directives in combination with thge window manager placement configuration to position the window as close to the position requested, but within thewm config on window placement (for examplke, you may have configured the wm not to overlap windows or to tile windows and this will be affected by other windows that are already displaying). Its been a while since I looked at geometry specifications. Last time I looked into it, there was some variation in how geometry values are interpreted for window managers that also provide virtual windows/workspaces. > > What window manager are you using? What emacs specific and 'wildcard' values do you have in your .Xresources? Tim > > > -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au