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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, drew.adams@oracle.com
Cc: 18637@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 19:55:48 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3d0f532-3b29-43d3-a41d-6687886307dc@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83tx3imhdg.fsf@gnu.org>>

> > > In (elisp) `Basic Parameters' I see this description of frame
> > > parameter `display':
> > >
> > >   The display on which to open this frame.  It should be a
> > >   string of the form `"HOST:DPY.SCREEN"', just like the
> > >   `DISPLAY' environment variable.
> 
> Btw, this is not the best place in the manual to read about this.
> A better one is "Multiple Terminals", where it says explicitly
> that this is only relevant on X.  The index entry "displays,
> multiple" leads to that node.

As a matter of fact, that is the node I started with, when trying
to find out about such things.  Please see this help-gnu-emacs
thread, where I mention that node and provide some context.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2014-10/msg00099.html

Is there no support for multiple monitors on MS Windows?  That's
really what I was looking for info about, along with general info
about Emacs display on multiple monitors.  When looking, I came
across the doc for `display-monitor-attributes-list' and
`frame-monitor-attributes'.

I was not able to find out how to obtain info about which monitor
is being used to show a particular frame, or how to specify
which monitor to use to display a particular frame.

The symptom reported was that by modifying a frame's parameters
to restore its previous values of `top', `left', `width' and
`height', the frame got moved to another monitor, for some
reason.

I don't have multiple monitors, to try things out, but I was
looking for some info in the manual that might explain what the
OP reports.





       reply	other threads:[~2014-10-06  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<12fc196e-cc82-4f22-8d2f-cede95542ea7@default>
     [not found] ` <<83vbnymi0h.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<83tx3imhdg.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-10-06  2:55     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-10-06 14:39       ` bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-06 16:34         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-06  2:55   ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <<b3d0f532-3b29-43d3-a41d-6687886307dc@default>
     [not found] ` <<83ppe5mfed.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-10-06 16:31   ` Drew Adams
2014-10-06 16:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<b5ac6ce3-5c0d-4517-a44f-6925cfccdcfd@default>
     [not found] ` <<837g0dm95c.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-10-06 17:25   ` Drew Adams
2014-10-05 19:23     ` Drew Adams
2014-10-05 19:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-05 19:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-06 18:08       ` Andy Moreton
2014-10-06 18:23         ` Drew Adams
2014-10-07 18:35       ` Andy Moreton
2014-10-07 20:25         ` Drew Adams
2014-10-06 19:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-06 20:52     ` Drew Adams
2014-10-07 15:14       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<c75b3094-d24b-4949-9c1e-b513c0b5bed7@default>
     [not found] ` <<ce89167f-4906-496e-9ace-4d51e1741311@default>
     [not found]   ` <<83tx3flxn2.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-10-07 18:12     ` Drew Adams
2014-10-07 18:26       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <<41484edb-9aaa-4f56-bf46-4ab70b609aac@default>
     [not found]       ` <<8361fvlos0.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-10-07 18:31         ` Drew Adams

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