From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-autoselect-window Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:49:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <86abs1bd54.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87myw1p8yb.fsf@escher.local.home> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189010981 1430 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2007 16:49:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:49:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 18:49:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISy4L-0001fG-9R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:49:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISy4J-0005z3-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISy4F-0005yn-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISy4F-0005yW-2Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISy4E-0005yP-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:49:26 -0400 Original-Received: from cpe-69-204-164-144.nycap.res.rr.com ([69.204.164.144] helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISy4E-0006zC-8T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:49:26 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:49:25 +0000 (UTC) In-reply-to: <87myw1p8yb.fsf@escher.local.home> (message from Stephen Berman on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:56:12 +0200) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77874 Archived-At: The original post described a desire to shift automatically from frame to frame. You can only do that with a focus-follows-mouse policy. When you have a click-to-focus policy in your window manager, I would expect having to click on a new frame -- I do not expect an instance of Emacs within a window manager to govern an enclosing window manager. That may be our difference. The documentation for mouse-autoselect-window says Non-nil means autoselect window with mouse pointer. and does not refer to frames at all, so I would not expect to select a different frame unless I had focus-follows-mouse policy. Try auto-selecting an Emacs window in another frame when you have a focus-follows-mouse policy turned on. Of course, the action may be the window manager's doing. Indeed, I suspect it is; it does not matter, since it shows that some one can shift automatically from frame to frame. I cannot doing anything for window managers that are limited in their focus policies. -- Robert J. Chassell GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 bob@rattlesnake.com bob@gnu.org http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc