From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: frame size&position woes Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 06:55:10 +0300 Message-ID: <83ppu8wr1d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <51EBEA23.2000805@gmx.at> <51ECEBDB.8010203@gmx.at> <837ggiy4ko.fsf@gnu.org> <83y58yvvse.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374638129 5979 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2013 03:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 24 05:55:30 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 1V1qAj-0001R7-NA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 05:55:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49619 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1qAj-0006Le-Dz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:55:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1qAc-0006LG-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1qAY-0007Y3-Tu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:52759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1qAY-0007Xs-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:55:18 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MQF00D009DPUZ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 06:55:17 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MQF00DUS9K4UF30@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 06:55:17 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:162101 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:47:51 +0200 > Cc: martin rudalics , Emacs developers > > Some people want for desktop-restore-frames to move on-screen frames > that are wholly off-screen. The only way to know the screen dimensions > is via `frame-monitor-attributes', which answers in pixels. Without > the real, window manager style physical size of a frame in pixels, all > we can do is crude heuristics. You should be able to approximate that by multiplying the character-unit dimensions by the pixel size of the default face's font. The result might be a few pixels off, but I don't see that as a grave problem, at least not until we have better facilities. > Restoring "one or two lines more or less" is not a big failure, but > it is also not a good result for code whose only purpose is to > restore frames' sizes and positions. It's good enough for me, because currently I have to restore my frames manually every time I quit and restart Emacs for some reason.