*As of writing this, I was using emacs 25 built on April 16 2015 on RHEL 5.10, GTK+ version 2.10.4, Gnome 2.16.0.* ## Issue I am able to change the frame position using `set-frame-position`. But the moment I use a function which uses `read-from-minibuffer`, the frame restores its position to where it was set using the mouse. I have seen this issue since emacs 24.3 (or probably even before that?) and am still seeing it in the latest build of emacs from its master branch. ## How to replicate this problem? Here's a test function to help you replicate this problem. (defun my/alter-frame-pos () (interactive) (set-frame-position nil 100 100)) ; pixels x y from upper left 1. Launch `emacs -Q`. 2. Eval the above function in the \*scratch\* buffer. 3. Position the frame to any random location **using** the mouse 4. `M-x my/alter-frame-pos`. You should see the frame jump to (100,100) pixel location. 5. `M-x find-file` or `C-x C-f` (this is one of the functions that uses `read-from-minibuffer`) 6. The frame will jump back to wherever you set it using the mouse! So basically my frame altering elisp snippet is useless as I have to use the mouse to make the position stick. I tried edebug but I couldn't go further as `read-from-minibuffer` is in C and I can't figure out how mouse based frame dragging sets its position. I even tried the below but that did not help: (defun my/alter-frame-pos () (interactive) (set-frame-parameter nil 'user-position t) (set-frame-position nil 100 100)) ; pixels x y from upper left For clarification, the `set-frame-position` is successfully able to change the frame position regardless of the `user-position` parameter value. But the moment I use `C-x C-f`, the position resets to where I had set the frame using the mouse. It's as if the position referenced by the C function `read-from-minibuffer` gets updated only when I use mouse to move the frame, but not when I use the `set-frame-position` function. In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.4) of 2015-04-16 on ... Repository revision: d4b44a07a75666177f8684876c7337c0b91a95da Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60900000 System Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.10 (Tikanga) Configured using: `configure --prefix=/home/kmodi/usr_local/apps/emacs/master CPPFLAGS=-fgnu89-inline' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE LIBOTF XFT ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Memory information: ((conses 16 813121 54174) (symbols 48 57811 0) (miscs 40 607 510) (strings 32 202492 24583) (string-bytes 1 8088748) (vectors 16 103562) (vector-slots 8 2166557 19181) (floats 8 10742 472) (intervals 56 2627 181) (buffers 976 22) (heap 1024 208649 3092))