Re: [O] [PATCH] Option for clock and timer to be displayed in frame-title

[Bernt Hansen]

Bernt Hansen <address@hidden> writes:

> George Kettleborough <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 28 2012, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>>> This patch needs a changelog entry in the commit text and a long
>>> description would also be appreciated.  The long description allows us
>>> to see the purpose of the patch and how to use it without the necessity
>>> to read and parse any of the code changes.
>>
>> Ok, I've done a changelog entry.  I hope this is what is expected.
>> (Also fixed a minor bug in original patch and added better documentation
>> to the new custom variable).
>>
>> The patch adds options to both org-clock and org-timer regarding how the
>> current clock/timer is displayed.  Currently they are both displayed in
>> the mode line.  This is not ideal since if you split your window
>> horizontally then the mode line becomes quite short so often the clock
>> is truncated and the timer might not even be visible.
>>
>> The new options control whether the clock/timer is displayed in the mode
>> line and/or frame title.  The frame title is usually wasted space for
>> people running a graphical version of emacs so it is quite useful there
>> I think.
>
> Thanks!  I use frames on Windows at work and no frames on Linux (in
> xmonad) at home.  I tend to run with emacs full screen so I haven't
> my modeline is long enough for me -- but it will be interesting to see
> how the frame title clock works.

Hi George,

I tried this patch at work and it hangs my Emacs session in Windows on
startup.  It's totally unresponsive and I have to kill the process with
the task manager.

I think there's an implementation problem here but I don't have any
other useful information about what it might be.

Regards,
Bernt