I see behavior when placing emacs frames and running fvwm that seems a bit strange and unlike other window managers.
When I move a frame from inside emacs with set-frame-position (I'll try to figure out exactly what that does X-wise in a minute), the window is moved so that the top corner of the actual emacs owned window winds up at the specificed x,y coordinates. This means fvwm's frames are really above and to the left of where I hoped they'd be. In both sawfish and mwm, the emacs windows, using the same lisp operations are positioned so that the window manager's frame winds up at the requested position. The sawfish & mwm way seems like the most desirable behavior, since emacs (or any other X app) has a hard time guessing how much frame there is around a window, but the window manager knows for sure (I'd hope). Details: fvwm-2.4.19, emacs-21.4, fedora core 3 As near as I can tell, emacs calls XMoveWindow to move the frame around (but looking at emacs source is always confusing :-). The main reason I report this as an fvwm bug rather than an emacs bug is the fact that is seems to behave OK under other window managers (on the other hand, I have somethimes gotten the impression that some versions of emacs wind up putting the window where I want it, so I'm not entirely sure what is going on). Is it a bug? (I have worked around it by simply specifying some environment variables with the frame size when I'm running under fvwm and teaching emacs to take that into account in its arithmetic :-). Is there some global window positioning setting I didn't notice in the man page that fixes this? Thanks for any info you can provide. -- >>==>> The *Best* political site <URL:http://www.vote-smart.org/> >>==+ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] icbm: Delray Beach, FL | <URL:http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley> Free Software and Politics <<==+ -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
