bug#38452: 26.3; set-frame-position is slightly drifted

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

martin rudalics <rudalics@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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