Re: x-display-list on the Mac

[David Reitter]

On 24 Mar 2007, at 11:37, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote:

> > Sure, that would make it a bit more consistent. However, the -mm-
> > functions weren't really my concern.
>
> I've heard that preview-latex uses these functions to display images
> in real size.

... in which case pixel and millimeter dimensions should refer to the  
same display area indeed.

> Yes.  Xinerama also supports such configurations.

> As I mentioned earlier, the concept you want
> has another name "framebuffer" in the X11 (Xinerama) world, and I
> think the right thing is to support them in a consistent way on the
> relevant platforms.

Yes, that would be good - perhaps in Emacs 22.2 or 23.

I've been using the attached patch to make `mac-display-available- 
pixel-bounds' available, which will take the Dock and menu bar into  
account when reporting the size of the display. If window managers  
support it, a cross-platform version of this would be useful, too,  
after the release.

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