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26.3; set-frame-position is slightly drifted

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Message #53 received at 38452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: Pascal Lambrechts <pascal.lambrechts <at> uclouvain.be>,
 "38452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <38452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#38452: 26.3; set-frame-position is slightly drifted 
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 04:01:03 +0200

martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> writes:

>> No, if I move manually towards the dock  the frame with (z-group
>> . above) it appears under the dock (the dock is half transparent).
>
> So it looks like Emacs doesn't have much power on your system.  Would
> working with wmctrl give you more power?  You should be able to get
> the position and size of an Emacs window with the -G argument and move
> it via the -e argument, see for example
>
> https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man1/wmctrl.1.html

Skimming this bug report, it seems like there's nothing to be done here
on the Emacs side, because this is all a window manager issue?  Is that
accurate?

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