Re: just-the-text Emacs frame

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:15:31 -0500
> 
> >> Can this pop up a frame without a title bar, much like what tooltip
> >> does?
> 
> EZ> Not without some help from the display engine on the C level, AFAICT.
> EZ> Tooltips are special kind of frame treated specially by redisplay.
> 
> I always thought frame decorations came from the window manager; is
> there a way to tell it "I draw my own title bar"?

I'm not an expert on this, so I don't know.  However, if you grep the
Emacs sources for "tip_frame", you will see how many places give
special treatment to tooltip frames.