Re: Creating a "borderless" frame (without WM chrome) (was Re: Could x-show-tip be reimplemented in Elisp? How does one create borderless frames from Elisp?)

[Clément Pit--Claudel]

On 02/16/2016 05:41 PM, Chris Feng wrote:
>> Scaling back on the original intent, then, could we expose to Lisp a way to 
>> create a chrome-less frame, presumably in just the same way as the tooltip 
>> code does it? Something like `remove_frame_chrome(frame *f)`, which one 
>> would call before making a frame visible.
> 
> This will definitely work on X.  Basically an X window manager takes over a 
> window when it gets mapped (becomes visible).  But I'm not sure if the 
> procedure is necessary on other platforms.
> 
> I think it'd be better if we can control this directly by feeding 
> `make-frame' a new frame parameter.

Indeed, that would be nice :)

Can we set this parameter after the corresponding X window has been displayed? 
Or should this new frame parameter only make sense in make-frame calls?

Clément.

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