From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: 57012@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57012: Activating versus raising frames
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2022 09:44:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ro25eo7.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18270a59cb0.2829.cc5b3318d7e9908e2c46732289705cb0@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Fri, 05 Aug 2022 20:54:38 -0400")
Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
> I noticed that raising an Emacs frame (latest master) with emacsclient
> does nothing under current Cinnamon. Emacs gains focus, but the
> focused window isn't raised.
>
> I can reproduce the problem with xdotool's windowraise command, which
> similarly did nothing. xdotool windowactivate works though, so I'm
> guessing the EWMH activate code in xterm.c would similarly do the
> trick. Emacs used to use EWMH activate on frame raise but stopped in
> 2007 to work around deadlocks in a version of metacity in use at the
> time. Can we once again activate Emacs frames on raise?
Wouldn't it make more sense for emacsclient to focus the frame, which
does activate it by default?
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2022-08-06 0:54 bug#57012: Activating versus raising frames Daniel Colascione
2022-08-06 1:44 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-08-06 23:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2022-08-07 1:55 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-07 2:07 ` Daniel Colascione
2022-08-07 2:45 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-07 2:52 ` Daniel Colascione
2022-08-07 3:02 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-07 3:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2022-08-07 3:29 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-07 4:10 ` Daniel Colascione
2022-08-07 4:29 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-07 4:59 ` Daniel Colascione
2022-08-07 5:27 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-20 11:30 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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