Emacs 21.2 Frame Parameters

[Joseph W. Jackson]

The more I dig into this the more I believe it is a bug.

I recently upgraded from Redhat Linux 7.2 to 7.3.  As part of the update, 
my emacs changed from version 20.7 to Emacs 21.2 and I now find that 
several of my frame customizations don't work.  In particular, the 
frame-parameters "top" and "left" get ignored.

For example:
In version 20.7 I used the following command to create a second frame 
positioned all the way to the right of my screen:
       (make-frame '((height . 70) (width .  93) (top . 0) (left .  581)))

under emacs 21.2.1 the command above produces a frame of height=70 and 
width=93 but the window is positioned at top=0 and left=0.  I get an 
identical result when I try to set "top" or "left" values for the variables 
"special-display-frame-alist" and "default-frame-alist"

Something changed between the releases and, as of yet, I am unable to work 
around the problem.



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