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Re: Strange 'drifting' in Cinnamon desktop
From: |
Angelo Graziosi |
Subject: |
Re: Strange 'drifting' in Cinnamon desktop |
Date: |
Sat, 7 Sep 2019 20:05:25 +0200 (CEST) |
> Il 7 settembre 2019 alle 14.57 Angelo Graziosi ha scritto:
>
>
> Usually I use Emacs configured with
>
> (desktop-save-mode 1)
>
> to save the session in a 'desktop' file. I have also something like this
>
> (setq default-frame-alist
> '(
> (width . 115) ; character
> (height . 51) ; lines
> (font . "Monospace-11") ; font
> ))
For now I added
(left . 850); pixel
(top . 0); pixel
to fix the drift...
>
> so that the frame has always the same dimensions.
>
> When the 'desktop' is not yet created, Emacs starts positioning the frame
> more or less at random. Then I move the frame so that its top-right (T-R)
> corner overlaps the T-R corner of the screen. Quitting Emacs asks to save the
> desktop. The next time Emacs starts, the frame occupies the same position
> with the T-R corner on the T-R of the screen.
>
> It worked that way on Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux Mint+Mate desktop.
>
> Last year, for various reasons, I had to install GNU/Linux Mint with Cinnamon
> desktop. Here, with the same configuration, at each start, Emacs drifts a bit
> toward left and after a while I had to re-positioning it to avoid it overlaps
> too much the window of other applications.
>
> I tested to the extreme this behavior and found that it stops to drift only
> when its top-left corner overlaps the top-left corner of the screen.
>
> I wonder if someone has a fix for this when using Cinnamon. I tried to change
> the Cinnamon configuration but apparently without success.
>
> Thanks,
> Angelo.