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Re: x-display-pixel-width/height inconsistency


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: x-display-pixel-width/height inconsistency
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:44:36 +0200

> But, OTOH, it is entirely possible that the user is saving the desktop
> with some frames only partially visible. If you have many, and some of
> them are less used, you can set them aside so only a fraction of the
> frame is shown, which makes them accessible without taking too much
> screen space.

Perfectly reasonable, yes.

> So, IMO, the only thing that makes sense is to
> move/resize a frame while restoring when that frame is entirely
> outside the current viewing area.

The Windows window manager does that automatically, IIRC.

> Or, perhaps, when the caption is
> (because in many/most/all? window managers, you can mouse-drag a
> window only from its caption).
>
> Of course, there's no way to know the caption height (in pixels) from
> inside Emacs, I think, so in the end it's all an ugly heuristics: the
> top of the frame is some arbitrary number of pixels inside the viewing
> area. Or is there a better way?

I think that once users have the workarea from Yamamoto's function, they
can easily adjust frame positions and sizes in a hook.  So I wouldn't
care about this problem from the POV of `desktop-read' any more.  Let's
see whether this really could become an issue.

martin



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