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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: jhd@gaffa.gaia.swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Program-specified positions ignored?
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 11:46:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17xUeX-00041e-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210032003.g93K3Xd8025573@stubby.bodenonline.com> (jan.h.d@swipnet.se)

    > > I am pretty sure that the reason for this is that including
    > > program-specified positions in XtNgeometry would override the window
    > > manager, which is wrong.  But if that is the wrong way to pass the
    > > program-specified positions to Xt, what is the right way?

    A comment on the problem that started this, should not Emacs consider
    positions and sizes specified in .emacs as user specified?

There are arguments both ways, but I think the better choice is
not to do so.

Can you help us figure out how to make program-specified positions
work properly?

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-04 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-03 20:06 Program-specified positions ignored? Jan D.
2002-10-04 15:46 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-10-04 16:01   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-05 16:33     ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-05 16:55       ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-15  1:51 Richard Stallman
2002-10-03 18:58 ` Jan D.
2002-10-04 22:09   ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-05 23:47     ` Jan D.

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