From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs geometry Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:18:22 +0200 Message-ID: <8764hleefl.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> References: <17605.41525.914000.14620@comcast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153851562 26137 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2006 18:19:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 25 20:19:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5RUu-0005BR-Oy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:19:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5RUu-0008RB-6Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G5RUD-00087d-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:18:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G5RUB-00086J-HH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:18:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5RUB-00086F-B6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:18:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.183] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G5RVV-0000e3-Lv; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.165.22.217] (helo=neutrino.caeruleus.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwtQ-1G5RU53sOs-0001bS; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:18:22 +0200 Original-To: Sridhar Boovaraghavan In-Reply-To: <17605.41525.914000.14620@comcast.net> (Sridhar Boovaraghavan's message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:46:45 -0700") X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:abf9ffac21f8345504ac40c53d3b40ba X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57628 Archived-At: * Sridhar Boovaraghavan (2006-07-25) writes: > It looks to me that the +0+0 in the Emacs.Geometry is being > ignored. Is that a bug? It could be called a missing feature. > If not, how should I specify the geometry to > achieve the behavior that I want - i.e. have all frames start from the > left-top corner. You can use the registry keys Emacs.Top and Emacs.Left to specify the vertical and horizontal coordinates of the top left frame corner. Analogously you can use `top' and `left' in `default-frame-alist'. The former method of specifying the coordinates is favorable because the are applied to the first frame right at its creation. -- Ralf