From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [npat@efault.net: Re: set-frame-position fails] Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:11:52 -0500 Message-ID: <878xr6piyv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142874874 699 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2006 17:14:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:14:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 20 18:14:32 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 1FLNwG-00035O-E8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:14:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FLNwC-0007y7-Aw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:13:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKzZV-0004Md-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:11:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKzZU-0004MQ-B0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:11:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKzZU-0004MN-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:11:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [18.95.6.124] (helo=outgoing.mit.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FKzem-0004cb-K7; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:17:24 -0500 Original-Received: by outgoing.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 075521E41A0; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:11:52 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 19 Mar 2006 04:09:46 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:51890 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Would someone please debug this and ack? > > From: Nick Patavalis > > Even when I set the "user-position" frame parameter, I still cannot > move the frame, and have it "stay" at the new position. All the > following fail in the same manner: > > (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame) > '((top . 10) > (left . 100) > (user-position . t))) > > (set-frame-position (selected-frame) 10 100) I can reproduce this with Gnome's default window manager, Metacity. With the Blackbox window manager, it works fine. My suspicion is that Metacity is trying to be clever, and failing. (For reference: the original bug report is that if you move the frame (X window) with the mouse, then try to use set-frame-position to move it elsewhere, Metacity immediately moves the frame back to the first position.)