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#18637
24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows
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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 19:25:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Found in version 24.4.50
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #14 received at 18637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> > > In (elisp) `Basic Parameters' I see this description of frame
> > > parameter `display':
> > >
> > > The display on which to open this frame. It should be a
> > > string of the form `"HOST:DPY.SCREEN"', just like the
> > > `DISPLAY' environment variable.
>
> Btw, this is not the best place in the manual to read about this.
> A better one is "Multiple Terminals", where it says explicitly
> that this is only relevant on X. The index entry "displays,
> multiple" leads to that node.
As a matter of fact, that is the node I started with, when trying
to find out about such things. Please see this help-gnu-emacs
thread, where I mention that node and provide some context.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2014-10/msg00099.html
Is there no support for multiple monitors on MS Windows? That's
really what I was looking for info about, along with general info
about Emacs display on multiple monitors. When looking, I came
across the doc for `display-monitor-attributes-list' and
`frame-monitor-attributes'.
I was not able to find out how to obtain info about which monitor
is being used to show a particular frame, or how to specify
which monitor to use to display a particular frame.
The symptom reported was that by modifying a frame's parameters
to restore its previous values of `top', `left', `width' and
`height', the frame got moved to another monitor, for some
reason.
I don't have multiple monitors, to try things out, but I was
looking for some info in the manual that might explain what the
OP reports.
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