From owner-ntemacs-users@june Mon Jan 27 13:08:33 1997 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil nil] [nil "Mon" "27" "January" "1997" "15:29:47" "EST" "John Morey" "jmorey@tbi.com" "<199701272033.MAA23965@june.cs.washington.edu>" "30" "Re: Question about inital screen position." "^From:" nil nil "1" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ju) with SMTP id NAA26817 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 13:08:33 -0800 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id NAA21418 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 13:08:31 -0800 Received: from ob1.tbi.com (ob1.tbi.com [206.5.81.3]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ju) with SMTP id MAA23965 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 12:33:15 -0800 Message-Id: <199701272033.MAA23965@june.cs.washington.edu> Received: by ob1.tbi.com (1.38.193.5/16.2) id AA01450; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 15:29:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: ; from "Ronan Waide" at Jan 27, 97 2:16 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85.2.1] From: John Morey To: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: Re: Question about inital screen position. Date: Mon, 27 Jan 97 15:29:47 EST > > On January 27, John Morey said: > > I have noticed that ntemacs always starts up in the upper left hand > > corner of the screen. Is there a way to let the window manager > > position ntemacs on startup? I have checked the FAQ and it contains > > ways to set the startup position to a fixed position but I would like > > to let the window manager do the postioning on startup. > > Emacs starts with 'hints' to the window manager that it should be > postitioned at (0,0). Some window managers like FVWM allow you to > ignore these hints. I don't think there's any easy way to do it with > ntemacs, short of patching the source and rebuilding. > > Waider. > -- > waider@autodealing.com / AutoDealing Software Ltd. / +353-1-6766455 I'm not sure how Windows works but if it is the same as Motif then I agree with you about the 'hints'. What I do not understand is why ntemacs would be giving the window manager any hints about where it should be if I did not set this in any way. If I do not set up a starting position then the window manager should not be given any hints about a starting position. This would allow the window manager to position the window where it wants to. -- | John Morey | jmorey@tbi.com | | Software Architect | Voice:(770) 937-7895 | | Technology Builders, Inc. | Fax:(770) 937-7901 | | Atlanta, GA | http://www.tbi.com |