From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to restore the layout? Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:50:34 +0200 Message-ID: <51CD788A.6080807@gmx.at> References: <51C5AA68.4000204@alice.it> <51C93CDB.2020301@gmx.at> <51C9C790.3020407@gmx.at> <51CA0D4C.7080204@alice.it> <51CC3E42.7020409@alice.it> <51CC4CC1.3030202@alice.it> <51CC8403.1030009@gmx.at> <51CCA56A.8000508@gmx.at> <51CD49CF.1090103@gmx.at> <51CD5489.10902@g mx.at> <2FB4C583-960C-4DA8-8B2E-29DF8D96770E@swipnet.se> <51CD6324.2 040504@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372420251 7174 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2013 11:50:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:50:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Angelo Graziosi , Juanma Barranquero , Emacs developers , Stefan Monnier , Eli Zaretskii , Stephen Berman , Jambunathan K To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 28 13:50:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UsXCT-0002bX-6I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:50:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsXCS-0003tE-Q3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:50:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48055) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsXCL-0003t9-TU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsXCK-0004kL-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.18]:60641) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsXCJ-0004kF-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.1]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx001) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MNwO5-1UuzEz21sJ-007Vkq for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:50:38 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Jun 2013 11:50:38 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-42-42.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.42.42]) [62.47.42.42] by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 28 Jun 2013 13:50:38 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18oD7YwRawoP55fI1pdgdDyv7/PRiqtGs2JqBtDEV 5UXLnU9V+eNpdI In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.18 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:161185 Archived-At: > Yes. So I guess you have to implement a smallish window manager to > get this right, i.e. handle resolution that differs from the one > saved, when previous visible frames vould now be invisible, handle > frames that spanned multiple monitors, but those monitors anre no > longer available, and so on. This is a hard problem. Indeed. In a first step, the desktop changes will mostly address people who resume a session on one and the same machine. When machines differ, all sort of things may have to be adapted. martin