Re: Negative positions in frame parameters

[Jan Djärv]

Stefan Monnier skrev:
> > > > Recently
> > > > (make-frame '((left . -10) (top . -10)))
> > > > stopped placing the frame in the bottom-right corner of the screen (at
> > > > least in the Gtk build).
> > > > Could someone fix it?
> > > Why should it go to the bottom-right corner? At least on w32 you can
> > > have the upper left corner outside of the screen.
>
> > http://www.xfree86.org/current/X.7.html#sect6
>
> So where was the change made that caused this new behavior?
> In Emacs's code or in some external library?

What new behaviour?  The bug was in Emacs code.

> > The problem in Emacs is how do you say the equivalent to
> >   -geometry --10--10, -geometry +-10+-10
> > in frame parameters?
>
> David was quicker than I, so I'll just +1 on his suggestion, except that
> it's incompatible with previous behavior.

And there already is a way.

        Jan D.