From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Negative positions in frame parameters Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:12:07 +0900 Message-ID: <87y6gr30i0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271168472 10223 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2010 14:21:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 13 16:21:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1gzE-0004Lx-EE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:21:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1gzD-0004cW-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:21:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1gxr-00042W-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:19:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35388 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1gxp-0003xU-U9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:19:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1gs6-0005SW-8v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:60459) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1gs5-0005Ro-UQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB681535A8; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:13:42 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D45E71A25E8; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:12:07 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" a03421eb562b XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:123570 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Stefan Monnier > wrote: > > Recently > > > > =A0(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? >=20 > 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.