[npat@efault.net: Re: set-frame-position fails]

[npat@efault.net: Re: set-frame-position fails]

[Richard Stallman]

Would someone please debug this and ack?

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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:33:22 +0200
From: Nick Patavalis <npat@efault.net>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: set-frame-position fails
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On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 03:43:47AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Someone suggested that this is not really a bug, just the normal
> behavior of the :user-position frame parameter.
> 

Even when I set the "user-position" frame parameter, I still cannot
move the frame, and have it "stay" at the new position. All the
following fail in the same manner:

  (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame)
                           '((top . 10)
                             (left . 100)
                             (user-position . t)))

  (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame)
                           '((top . 10)
                             (left . 100)
                             (user-position . nil)))

  (set-frame-position (selected-frame) 10 100)

Shouldn't one of them work?

/npat

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Re: [npat@efault.net: Re: set-frame-position fails]

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Would someone please debug this and ack?
>
> From: Nick Patavalis <npat@efault.net>
>
> Even when I set the "user-position" frame parameter, I still cannot
> move the frame, and have it "stay" at the new position. All the
> following fail in the same manner:
>
>   (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame)
>                            '((top . 10)
>                              (left . 100)
>                              (user-position . t)))
>
>   (set-frame-position (selected-frame) 10 100)

I can reproduce this with Gnome's default window manager, Metacity.
With the Blackbox window manager, it works fine.  My suspicion is that
Metacity is trying to be clever, and failing.

(For reference: the original bug report is that if you move the frame
(X window) with the mouse, then try to use set-frame-position to move
it elsewhere, Metacity immediately moves the frame back to the first
position.)

Re: [npat@efault.net: Re: set-frame-position fails]

[Richard Stallman]

    I can reproduce this with Gnome's default window manager, Metacity.
    With the Blackbox window manager, it works fine.  My suspicion is that
    Metacity is trying to be clever, and failing.

If there is a bug in Metacity, we ought to report it.
Can you manage to do that?