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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can Emacs help here (running on Linux, display on Windows)?
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 09:38:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9ruwmc2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANc-5Uz_=P-UL+e6dAdVw2rZPQ+56YsaPTx3-PxZ-hQzXycY=A@mail.gmail.com> (message from Skip Montanaro on Fri, 4 Aug 2017 15:26:21 -0500)

> From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 15:26:21 -0500
> 
> I'm now faced with a small problem. Click-to-focus is the rule, but stupid,
> stupid Windows also insists on passing the same click used to change focus
> to the application itself. Maybe VcXsrv has some setting I've not
> discovered (I can't even find the damn thing on the computer.) Is there
> some way to make it stop? Can Emacs come to the rescue and somehow ignore
> that initial, point-changing click?

What do you mean by "ignore"?  What does Emacs do upon that click that
you'd like to avoid?  (I never used a Mac, and hope I never will, so I
have no idea what does "change keyboard focus, full stop" really
mean, on a GUI system where the window that has focus receives a flood
of window-system events right away.)

In any case, you can have focus-follows-mouse on Windows as well,
although it's a bit more tricky than on X.  I always set up my Windows
machines to do that, because having to click a window (and as result
raise it to the top-most position in z-order) to have focus in it
drives me mad.  However, given that I don't understand what part of a
click you'd like Emacs to ignore, I cannot be sure that even having
focus-follows-mouse on Windows will solve your problem.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-05  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-04 20:26 Can Emacs help here (running on Linux, display on Windows)? Skip Montanaro
2017-08-05  6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-08-05  9:29   ` ken
2017-08-05 19:14   ` Bob Proulx
2017-08-05 19:39     ` Skip Montanaro
2017-08-05 20:48       ` Bob Proulx
2017-08-05 21:06         ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-08-05 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-05 21:07   ` Skip Montanaro
2017-08-05 20:04 ` Yuri Khan
2017-08-05 20:59   ` Skip Montanaro
2017-08-06  7:26   ` Emanuel Berg

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