Re: mouse-set-font and menu position?

[Stefan Monnier]

> address@hidden (Pavel Janík) writes:
> 
> > First, emacs will start with the default font. After 1s (not necessary to
> > wait here, just because we would like to see that), the font is changed to
> > 6x10. The frame is now smaller, but the top-left origin of emacs' X-frame
> > is the same as before. After additional 1s, the font is changed to 6x13 AND
> > the top-left origin of X-frame is moved (at least on my setup) but
> > bottom-left origin stays at the same point on the monitor.
> >
> > After that, S-down-mouse-1 will show menu, which is about 5cm from the
> > mouse pointer.
> >
> > I do have this in my .Xdefaults:
> >
> > emacs.geometry:        110x45+50-55
> 
> I think it is a good idea that the bottom left corner doesn't move.
> Imagine the geometry was +0-0 and that the window would grow.  Then
> fixing the top left corner means that the bottom of the window is not
> visible anymore.  But fixing the bottom left corner means that the
> bottom of the window is still visible.  Also imagine that the window
> shrinks, then presumably you still want the bottom left corner to be
> in the corner of the screen.
> 
> I remember some discussion on supporting window gravity for Sawfish
> (maybe it was still called Sawmill at that time).  Maybe Sawfish is
> the only window manager to do it right :-)

When I complained about it to the ctwm maintainer many years ago,
he said that the bogus behavior of always fixing the top-left
corner regardless of the gravity was required by the ICCCM spec.

I hope he was wrong,


        Stefan