From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Todd Allen <todd@etallen.com>
Cc: Todd Allen <todd.allen@ccur.com>, 16503@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16503: 24.3; make-frame's user-position doesn't work
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:13:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b733fb4e-0a00-b4e0-a0f5-cb471b9e575b@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h86j8az1.fsf@mouse.gnus.org>
>> Issuing the following expression:
>> (make-frame '((user-position . t) (left . 100) (top . 100)))
>> creates a new frame with only a program-specified position in the
>> WM_NORMAL_HINT, instead of a user-specified position.
>>
>> I started noticing this in the emacs 24.x series, but didn't track down
>> the cause of the ultimate problem until now. The above worked in emacs 23.x.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately gotten no
> responses yet.)
>
> I haven't looked at the low-level values passed here, but eval-ing that
> form seems to do what you'd expect -- opening a frame at 100x100 (in
> Emacs 27, at least).
>
> Has this started working again, or if not -- do you have a recipe that
> will display the bug?
Window managers are allowd to ingore normal hints, so YMMV. I fail to
understand why gui_figure_window_size would ignore 'user-position' for
the OP, though.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-15 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-19 22:33 bug#16503: 24.3; make-frame's user-position doesn't work Todd Allen
2019-08-15 1:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-15 8:13 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2019-10-01 16:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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