Re: Negative positions in frame parameters

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:

> Lennart Borgman skrev 2010-04-13 15.33:
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Stefan Monnier
>> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>  wrote:
>>> Recently
>>>
>>>   (make-frame '((left . -10) (top . -10)))
>>>
>>> stopped placing the frame in the bottom-right corner of the screen (at
>>> least in the Gtk build).
>>>
>>> Could someone fix it?
>>
>> Why should it go to the bottom-right corner? At least on w32 you can
>> have the upper left corner outside of the screen.
>>
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/current/X.7.html#sect6
>
> The problem in Emacs is how do you say the equivalent to
>
>   -geometry --10--10, -geometry +-10+-10
>
> in frame parameters?

(make-frame '((right . -10) (bottom . -10)))

(make-frame '((left . -10) (top . -10)))

would seem like a reasonably obvious way.

-- 
David Kastrup