Re: positioning of window in X no more possible

["Peter Münster" <pmlists@free.fr>]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Does "xrdb -q | egrep -i 'emacs|geom'" show something?

Hello Peter,

Yes:
xterm*vt100*geometry:   93x50
emacs*cursorColor:  Red3
emacs*geometry: 82x39+40+84
emacs*font: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-*-*-*-*-120-iso10646-1
xpdf.geometry:  1200x1020+0-0

That's the contents of my .Xdefaults file.


> GNU Emacs 23.1, when launched with -Q, should still follow X resources.  Its
> help lists -g as meaning the same as --geometry. How does this work instead of
> -g?

The same result.


> Does the variable command-line-args contain the command line arguments?

No.


> What is the command 'which emacs' returning? And what is 'file `which emacs`'
> telling?

It's a shell script:
#!/bin/bash
# Possible values are nox, gtk, or x11
: ${EMACS_TOOLKIT:=gtk}
exec -a ${0} ${0}-${EMACS_TOOLKIT} ${1+"$@"}

I have not set the environment variable EMACS_TOOLKIT, so emacs-gtk is
called.

Now I've tried emacs-x11: there is no such problem, so it seems to be the
gtk-layer.

Here the details:

file `which emacs-gtk`:
/usr/bin/emacs-gtk: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

file `which emacs-x11`: the same

emacs-gtk -Q -g 20x20+500+500  ->  +500+500 ignored
emacs-x11 -Q -g 20x20+500+500  ->  no problem

Cheers, Peter

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