Re: Question about minibuffer and child frames (Posframe)

["Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>>> Are the two lines and columns need for the borders payed for by the
>>> child frame or its parent?
>>
>> The child frame is unaffected. It doesn't "know" if redisplay puts a
>> border around it, and there is no way for it to know. So it's much like
>> with a window manager on X, more or less.
>
> So the parent pays?  If so, please say that somewhere because it will
> affect the position of the child frame within the parent.  On a GUI the
> position is the one specified by the user and the child frame pays for
> the border (is "affected").

I don't know what you mean by "parent pays".

Anyway, it's true that you want a +1 x and y with a border on ttys as it
stands because otherwise the border could hide something. BTW, that
works nicely at least for what I'm using (Corfu, Vertico-Posframe,
Transient-Posframe).