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- x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from help-lucid-emacs to alt.lucid-emacs.help; Thu, 28 Jan 1993 23:03:03 EST
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:02:09 PST
- Message-ID: <9301290402.AA09138@thalidomide.lucid>
- From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
- Sender: jwz%thalidomide@lucid.com
- Subject: Re: kind of -geometry wxh+x+y for a new screen
- References: <1993Jan26.185113.169699@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
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- Hamish Macdonald wrote:
- >
- > Only certain things in x-screen-defaults will work. In particular,
- > "geometry" does not.
- >
- > I gave the following patch to Jamie last year sometime. It allows you
- > to specify geometry in the x-screen-defaults or the parameters in
- > x-create-screen.
-
- The reason I didn't put this in is because I would rather have the x/y/
- width/height symbols work. I try to live under the illusion that Lucid Emacs
- is not completely married to X, so I resist making the functional interfaces
- to things be obviously X-specific (as the X syntax for geometry specs is.)
-
- -- Jamie
-