Re: wrong frame position with --fullscreen

[Stephan Hennig <mailing_list@arcor.de>]

Juanma Barranquero schrieb:
> On 6/13/07, Stephan Hennig <mailing_list@arcor.de> wrote:
> 
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> * Put desktop task panel at top of screen.
>> * Start emacs with 'emacs -Q --fullscreen'.
>>
>> Symptoms:
>> * Emacs' frame appears under the task panel, i.e., Emacs' title bar
>>   and part of menu bar are hidden behind the task panel.
> 
> It is a known bug/misfeature.

Thank you for looking into this.


> As a workaround you can move the frame to the right place, either
> from your .emacs, or with registry settings. Also, I have a (not very
> well tested) patch somewhere that fixes this problem ("tiptoes
> around" would be perhaps a more fitting description). Yell if you
> want to give it a try.

Thanks.  I haven't set up a build environment for Emacs yet.  So I won't
yell today or tomorrow.  (As a start I've just compiled the AUCTeX
package for the first time.)

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig