Subject: bug#25851: 25.2; GTK warning when starting Emacs when desktop file has more than one frame

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:29:31 +0100

>> IIUC we do all this trickery to make a new frame with the left or
 >> top edge off-screen.
 >
 > Do we understand the purpose of this?

The purpose of what?  If you asked why people want to show a frame with
the top or left edge off-screen, then the major goup of clients might be
those who want to move the titlebar out of view.

Nothing against the use of (make-frame '((left . (+ -100)))) as long as
it's done within .emacs.  It's a pain, however, when such idioms get
distributed in packages because then their authors will redirect users
to this list whenever a window manager refuses to comply.

martin