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25.2; GTK warning when starting Emacs when desktop file has more than one frame

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 25851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25851: 25.2; GTK warning when starting Emacs when desktop file has more than one frame
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 19:44:37 +0100

>> One thing that doesn't work are negative offsets like in emacs
>> -Q -g 80x40-20-20.
>
> Here I can successfully position frames partially off the display
> (using the mouse) but when they are restored from a desktop file,
> they are moved slightly so that are fully on the display. (Perhaps
> this is what you mean?) I don't see that this is necessarily bad
> behaviour. (Others might (probably will!) disagree of course...)

The -20-20 are supposed to put the frame's right and lower edge at a
distance of 20 pixels from the right and bottom edge of the display.
This doesn't work any more because the corresponding calculations in
xg_set_geometry are not done any more.  I moved them to x_set_offset
here.

martin

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