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Paul Moore <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk> writes:

> I currently use XEmacs 21.5.10 on Windows (2000 and XP), mainly for
> news/mail via Gnus and occasionally for general editing tasks.
>
> Anyway, one annoying feature in FSF Emacs is that when I open a new
> frame (for example, with C-X 5 f) it appears in *exactly* the same
> position on screen as the current frame. It therefore looks like I
> didn't open a new frame!

This doesn't help you, but on X this usually something you adjust in you
window manager.  For me a new frame is placed slightly offset from the
previous one by default.  There's also a plethora of other placement
algorithms I could select.

> How can I get the frame creation behaviour I want from FSF Emacs?

I'm not sure exactly which algorithm you want.  But this should give you
an idea: It places a new frame offset by 15 pixels from the previous:

(defun my-frame-position ()
  (let ((left (or (cdr (assq 'left default-frame-alist)) 0))
	(top (or (cdr (assq 'top default-frame-alist)) 0)))
    (setq default-frame-alist 
	  (cons (cons 'left (+ left 15))
		(assq-delete-all 'left default-frame-alist))
	  default-frame-alist
	  (cons (cons 'top (+ top 15))
		(assq-delete-all 'top default-frame-alist)))))

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(user-position . t))
(add-hook 'before-make-frame-hook 'my-frame-position)