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Multi-monitor frame sets

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: 34516 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34516: Multi-monitor frame sets
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:03:02 +0200

> Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:
>
>> Shouldn't frame.el provide a command like make-frame-on-display,
>> but to make a frame on the specified monitor instead of display?
>>
>> Isn't the following patch the right way to do this?
>> (It also adds completion for the existing command):
>>
>
> I donʼt mind it, but it won't work on macOS, since thereʼs no 'name
> entries in 'display-monitor-attributes-list' (and adding them looks
> non-trivial, unless we go for 'Monitor-1', Monitor-2' etc.)

Are there other NS-specific attributes that could provide
a clear reference to a specific monitor?  Maybe ‘geometry’
could be used to deduce a relative arrangement of monitors?

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