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Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:

>>   emacsclient -n -c -F "((width.200)(height.50)(top.20)(left.2000))"
>> What I am doing wrong?

> Omitting spaces in the cons cells; try this:    
> emacsclient -n -c -F "((width . 200)(height . 50)(top . 20)(left . 2000))"

That seems to work for width and height.  Thanks.

However, left and top seem to be ignored, with the window manager
placing the window wherever it wants, even when I add (user-position
. t) to frame parameters.

Passing equivalent geometry to uxterm, the terminal gets placed at the
requested coordinates, so the window manager does obey it in some cases.

-- HASM