Emacs frames and Compiz

Emacs frames and Compiz

[Sven Bretfeld]

Hello list

Has anybody solved this problem? When using compiz-fusion (I'm on
Debian, KDE, emacs-snapshot), new Emacs frames (M-x make-frame, or,
emacsclient -c) are not started correctly.

In fact, they do start as can be seen from 'ps ax | grep emacs' but the
frame seems to vanish somewhere in the Nirvana outside the scope of the
window-manager. No frame is to be seen, no icon is visible in the
task-manager, and the frame isn't accessable by Alt-TAB.

I found some hints to the problem via Google (eg.
http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=9279), but no solution.
A guy writes:

,----
| I *believe* it has something to do compiz's effort to take a
| larger-than-viewport window ad rezise its borders.
`----

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Sven

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Re: Emacs frames and Compiz

[Nobuko Three]

Sven wrote:
> Has anybody solved this problem? When using compiz-fusion (I'm on
> Debian, KDE, emacs-snapshot), new Emacs frames (M-x make-frame, or,
> emacsclient -c) are not started correctly. 
> 
I had similar but different problem: I start emacs and emacs frame wouldn't
be found.

A solution to my probem was to open CCSM and have emacs windows to be
excluded from some rules. I think the same approach can solve your problem.

But I forgot exactly how to exclude emacs from what rules.
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Re: Emacs frames and Compiz

[Rémi Letot]

"Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> writes:

> Hello list
>
> Has anybody solved this problem? When using compiz-fusion (I'm on
> Debian, KDE, emacs-snapshot), new Emacs frames (M-x make-frame, or,
> emacsclient -c) are not started correctly.
>
> In fact, they do start as can be seen from 'ps ax | grep emacs' but the
> frame seems to vanish somewhere in the Nirvana outside the scope of the
> window-manager. No frame is to be seen, no icon is visible in the
> task-manager, and the frame isn't accessable by Alt-TAB.

Like this ? 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/239917

Try to disable smart window placement in compiz to see if your frames
come back.

Hth,
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Re: Emacs frames and Compiz

[Sven Bretfeld]

Hi

hobbes@poukram.net (Rémi Letot) writes:

> Like this ? 
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/239917

Exactly.

> Try to disable smart window placement in compiz to see if your frames
> come back.

Works! Thanks.

Greetings

Sven
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