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emacs-frame
A frame contains and displays one or emacs window.
Outside of Emacs, frames are usually called “windows”.
Outside of Emacs, Emacs windows might be called “panes”, “sub-windows”, or “MDI windows”.
When running on a graphic display, an Emacs frame is implemented as a window-manager window.
In a character-cell shell (such as a text console or an xterm) there is an implicit Emacs frame for the terminal. You can create additional frames – each is in effect a virtual terminal.
A frame is rectangular, with four borders. On a graphic display, a frame usually has a title bar, showing the FrameTitle. By default, a frame has a MenuBar, just under the title bar. On a graphic displays, by default a frame also has a ToolBar with icon buttons.