Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:13:11 +0200
From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
When we call x-popup-dialog with t as the first parameter. The function
x_popup_menu_1 tries to get the cursor/mouse position calling
term_mouse_position. (As the documentation says)
The issue is that term_mouse_position always report (0,0) as the current
position independently of the cursor and mouse actual positions because
it just copies the values in last_mouse_x and last_mouse_y which are
zero because nobody updated them, see.
last_mouse_x and last_mouse_y will change only if you use GPM mouse on
the terminal. Otherwise, these variables will remain zero on
GNU/Linux. So what you see is expected unless you use GPM (do you?).
The doc string of x-popup-dialog says that if POSITION is t, then the
dialog appears at the center of the selected frame. So what you see
is exactly what the documentation says, and I don't understand what is
the problem you are trying to solve, or why POSITION being t is
important to you, or where you expected or wanted the dialog to pop up
or why there. Please elaborate, as I feel we are talking past each
other.
I see the same on a GUI frame, btw, so I also don't understand what
"works as expected in gui" for you.
What am I missing?