Re: wrong frame position with --fullscreen

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On 6/13/07, Stephan Hennig <mailing_list@arcor.de> wrote:
>
> > Steps to reproduce:
> > * Put desktop task panel at top of screen.
> > * Start emacs with 'emacs -Q --fullscreen'.
> >
> > Symptoms:
> > * Emacs' frame appears under the task panel, i.e., Emacs' title bar
> >   and part of menu bar are hidden behind the task panel.
>
> It is a known bug/misfeature. Currently, Emacs' fullscreen support in
> Windows is not very good. It doesn't grok multiple monitors, for
> example. As a workaround you can move the frame to the right place,
> either from your .emacs, or with registry settings. Also, I have a
> (not very well tested) patch somewhere that fixes this problem
> ("tiptoes around" would be perhaps a more fitting description). Yell
> if you want to give it a try.


I have for long time had a fix for this in the patched version of 
Emacs+EmacsW32 too. This patch is incomplete, since the bottom part of 
Emacs window, below the minibuffer (or at the bottom part of it) is 
sometimes not redrawn.

I would be glad to incorporate your patch there for testing. There has 
been no complaints about the current patch, except for the redrawing 
which is a little beauty problem in only some special cases. However 
that does not mean that I know that it is otherwise correct. Kim said 
once that he was unsure whether there are problems with maximized 
windows and the current display code.