From mhotchin@microsoft.com Sun Jan 5 18:07:26 1997 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil t t nil nil nil] [nil "Sun" " 5" "January" "1997" "18:07:25" "-0800" "Michael Hotchin" "mhotchin@microsoft.com" "" "66" "Frame positioning bugs in NT Emacs 19.34" "^From:" nil nil "1" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from INET-05-IMC.itg.microsoft.com (mail5.microsoft.com [131.107.3.31]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.3+CSE/7.2ju) with SMTP id SAA10970 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 18:07:26 -0800 Received: by INET-05-IMC.itg.microsoft.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.994.63) id <01BBFB33.85361AC0@INET-05-IMC.itg.microsoft.com>; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 18:08:57 -0800 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.994.63 Encoding: 67 TEXT From: Michael Hotchin To: "'voelker@cs.washington.edu'" Subject: Frame positioning bugs in NT Emacs 19.34 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 18:07:25 -0800 Hi, as the keeper of All That Is Good (TM), I'm sending you this. if this isn't the right place, please let me know so I can pass it on to the right people... I'm seeing weird behavior when I try to position the frames in Emacs. I actually noticed this when try to crank up EDIFF, since it has a 'wide-mode' for viewing differences. The behavior I'm seeing is that Emacs is consistently wrong about it's internal idea of where the frames are positioned. For example, I execute this in *scratch*: (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame) (list (cons 'left 0) (cons 'top 0))) This is pattermed after similar code in EDIFF. Immediately afterwards, I execute: (insert (prin1-to-string (frame-parameters (selected-frame)))) Among the volumes of output, I see... (top . 25) (left . 6) The offsets are consistently wrong by the same amount. For even more fun, run the following a few times: (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame) (list (cons 'left 1))) The frame will march down the screen, apparently by the same offset amount that it's reporting above. In EDIFF, toggling Wide-Mode cause this relentless march down the screen. System: NT 4.0 SP2 "GNU Emacs 19.34.1 (i386-*-nt4.0) of Wed Aug 28 1996 on BANANA-FISH" (from the distribution). I also do the following, (among other things), in my .emacs... (menu-bar-mode 0) (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 60) (height . 50) (top . 225) (left . 790) (cursor-color . "red") (foreground-color . "black") (background-color . "white") (horizontal-scroll-bars . nil) (vertical-scroll-bars . nil) (font . "-*-Terminal-normal-r-*-*-12-90-*-*-c-*-*-oem-"))) (setq initial-frame-alist '((width . 97) (height . 83) (top . 0) (left . 0))) Mike H. mhotchin@microsoft.com