Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>,  yandros@gmail.com,
>   casouri@gmail.com,  alan@idiocy.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   contovob@tcd.ie,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  larsi@gnus.org
> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:50:23 +0100
> 
>     Eli> I think those positioning issues need to be fixed before we will 
> agree
>     Eli> to merge the branch.
> 
> Iʼm not sure what we can do: under Wayland the window manager I have
> ignores programmatic requests to change frame positions, and this is
> apparently by design.
> 
> Hmm, specifying *initial* frame sizes and positions seems to work, but
> only if done early enough, such as by setting 'default-frame-alist' in
> early-init.el. I guess worst case we can destroy frames and recreate
> them instead of moving them. Someone (Martin?) suggested creating an
> invisible max-size top-level frame that we could use as the parent for
> all other frames on pgtk, since pgtk does allow us to move and resize
> child-frames. I donʼt know if thatʼs actually possible.

If it's feasible to fix these issues, we should try doing that, so
that Emacs behaves the same as with other toolkits; controlling the
position and geometry of a frame is pretty important, I think.

But if it turns out infeasible to do that on Wayland, we should
document that fact and move on.