Severity: wishlist

Here are two related feature requests:

1. A new command make-frame-on-current-monitor that is useful when the user
   uses only one monitor on multiple-monitor setup.  The problem is that the
   command make-frame creates a new frame on unused non-selected monitor.
   Here comes make-frame-on-current-monitor to rescue:

diff --git a/lisp/frame.el b/lisp/frame.el
index 16ee7580f8..dc8dabc5a5 100644
--- a/lisp/frame.el
+++ b/lisp/frame.el
@@ -713,6 +713,18 @@ make-frame-on-display
                       (x-display-list))))
   (make-frame (cons (cons 'display display) parameters)))
 
+(defun make-frame-on-current-monitor (&optional parameters)
+  "Make a frame on the currently selected monitor.
+Like `make-frame-on-monitor' and with the same PARAMETERS as in `make-frame'."
+  (interactive)
+  (let* ((monitor-workarea
+          (cdr (assq 'workarea (frame-monitor-attributes))))
+         (geometry-parameters
+          (when monitor-workarea
+            `((top . ,(nth 1 monitor-workarea))
+              (left . ,(nth 0 monitor-workarea))))))
+    (make-frame (append geometry-parameters parameters))))
+
 (defun make-frame-on-monitor (monitor &optional display parameters)
   "Make a frame on monitor MONITOR.
 The optional argument DISPLAY can be a display name, and the optional

2. This command could be used in windmove-display-new-frame
   to display the next buffer in a new frame as well as
   windmove-display-new-window to display the buffer in a new window: