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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "Adrian Robert" <adrian.b.robert@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> On the Mac platform both the Carbon and Cocoa ports face the problem
>> of determining where on the display to place new frames.
>>     
>
> Isn't that the duty of the window manager?
>   
Only if you don't explicitly specify where to put the window. It is
still useful for Emacs to know about the usable display area, for
handling the --fullscreen option, etc.