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Re: mouse-autoselect-window
From: |
martin rudalics |
Subject: |
Re: mouse-autoselect-window |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:32:20 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) |
> My take on `focus-follows-mouse' is that it tells Emacs that it can make
> use of the hack of warping the mouse pointer in order to change the
> window manager frame focus. With a click-to-focus window manager, this
> hack is not available, and consequently Emacs may be unable to change
> the window manager focus.
Do you mean that whether Emacs is able to warp the mouse pointer depends
on the policy of the window manager too?
> There is not really any completely correct way for Emacs to switch to a
> different frame. Using XSetInputFocus certainly is not the correct way
> at all, because (a) window managers are likely to actively prevent such
> uses, since clients often misuse it,
... wouldn't this argument apply to a focus-follows-mouse policy too?
> and (b) it doesn't work if the
> window to which focus will be transfered is unmapped (iconified), which
> may be the case if the window manager has iconified it or
> "shaded/rolled" it, an action that a tiling or tabbing window manager
> may do routinely.
We do x_make_frame_invisible in this case. Would that fail?
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, (continued)
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, Jason Rumney, 2007/09/07
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/08
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, martin rudalics, 2007/09/08
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, Jason Rumney, 2007/09/08
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/08
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, Michael Kifer, 2007/09/08
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, Jason Rumney, 2007/09/09
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, Michael Kifer, 2007/09/09
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, Jason Rumney, 2007/09/09
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/07
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window,
martin rudalics <=
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, 2007/09/07
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, martin rudalics, 2007/09/07
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, Jan Djärv, 2007/09/08
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/09/05
- RE: mouse-autoselect-window, Drew Adams, 2007/09/06
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, martin rudalics, 2007/09/05
- RE: mouse-autoselect-window, Drew Adams, 2007/09/05
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, martin rudalics, 2007/09/06
- RE: mouse-autoselect-window, Drew Adams, 2007/09/06
- Re: mouse-autoselect-window, martin rudalics, 2007/09/06