Re: Is there a way to control where frames get created?

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Mon, 01 Oct 2018 10:35:16 +0200 martin rudalics <address@hidden>
wrote:
>  > This is under MacOS/aqua:
[...]
> As you can see, your internal border is two pixels wide.  And Alan
> just noted in the thread of Bug#32882:
> 
>  > I wonder if it’s the internal border. It’s not properly
>  > supported on the NS port for some reason, and therefore should
>  > always be the background colour. But it defaults to 2 pixels.
>  > Try:
>  >
>  > (set-frame-parameter nil 'internal-border-width 0)  
> 
> So please try that before making the new frame.  Unfortunately, in
> the follow-up Aaron said it would not change anything and I suppose
> you will see the same.  But yours and Aaron's experience could
> eventually lead us to where those two pixels come from.

I'll try that out.

> BTW the X-position 690 of your new frame is much larger than I would
> expect from 0 + 675.  So this seems even more broken.

No, that's fine. I deliberately added 15 pixels there for a couple of
reasons. (I wanted to be able to see if I was obscuring any
terminals, a thin strip of the background is good for this purpose.
It isn't a bug, I did it myself.)

Perry
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