From: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: raise frame no go
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:04:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2slee929x.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7dbe73ed0701070858y868da5m566f994904d3c067@mail.gmail.com
"Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com> writes:
> I just wanted to add to the discussion that Metacity indeed seems to
> be buggy. Yesterday I downloaded and compiled a small program called
> `xwit' that could "pop" a windo to front. Guess what, the same
> behaviour as I get with `raise-frame' in Emacs.
>
> A pity as I am reluctant to change my window manager in Gnome.
I have now found a work around to my problem. I am building a kind of
command launcher (something similar to this:
http://pyqe.sourceforge.net/) in Emacs and my problem was that I could
not get Emacs to bring the frame where I ask the user for input to the
top.
To solve my problem I downloaded and compiled a small program called
"devilspie" (http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie). This
tool lies in the background and "listens" for windows that opens, and
in my case I configured it to execute the "focus" action whenever a
certain window created from Emacs opens (my little command launcher
creates a frame with a special name).
Of course, if Metacity and Emacs would play along more nicely I would
not need this extra hack, but as it solves my problem it is no longer
really a problem for me. At least not right now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-13 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <m2ac0z5q7a.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk>
[not found] ` <459CE81B.2090201@swipnet.se>
[not found] ` <uhcv61o2b.fsf@gnu.org>
2007-01-06 12:32 ` raise frame no go Jan Djärv
2007-01-07 3:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-08 7:43 ` Jan Djärv
2007-01-07 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-07 16:58 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-13 19:04 ` Mathias Dahl [this message]
2007-01-08 7:45 ` Jan Djärv
2007-01-08 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-08 17:40 ` Jan Djärv
2007-01-08 23:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-09 7:18 ` Jan Djärv
2007-01-10 21:47 ` Miles Bader
2007-01-11 0:28 ` Chris Moore
2007-01-11 7:48 ` Jan Djärv
2007-09-23 11:35 ` Leo
2007-09-24 5:53 ` Jan Djärv
2007-09-24 8:40 ` Leo
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