Re: Negative positions in frame parameters

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>]

Lennart Borgman writes:
 > 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?

This is just the traditional behavior on X11 displays.  Negative
position coordinates are relative to the bottom-right corner, positive
ones to the top-left.

 > At least on w32 you can have the upper left corner outside of the
 > screen.

You can in X, too, but it's rarely useful for top-level windows.  The
ability to place the window on the right or bottom of the screen is
often useful.  IME YMMV, of course; I'm just explaining where the
tradition comes from, not advocating it.