Re: raise frame no go

[Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

* Mathias Dahl (2007-01-04 02:34 +0100) said:
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I want to use emacsclient to bring Emacs frame to the front. I tried
>> several functions including raise-frame, x-focus-frame etc, but none
>> of them worked. All they do is causing the Emacs frame to flash in
>> the taskbar. Any ideas?
>>
>> This is tested in Gnome 2.16 in Fedora 6.
>> Emacs 23: 20061218.
>
> I just wanted to mention that I have the same problem. Running CVS
> Emacs as of 2007-01-1 under Mandriva GNU/Linux, using GNOME with its
> Metacity window manager. What I do is this:
>
>  $ emacsclient -e "(my-function)"
>
> and my-function is:
>
> (defun my-function ()
>  (select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)))
>
> (well, of course it does more than that but...)
>
> Up until today I haven't played with emacsclient under GNU/Linux. I
> have just used gnuclient & friends under w32. I am currently coding a
> small command/url/hatever launcher in Emacs, and the current behavior
> is quite frustrating (when Emacs is not the topmost window).
>
> I see this code in xterm.c:
>
> XTframe_raise_lower (f, raise_flag)
>      FRAME_PTR f;
>      int raise_flag;
> {
>   if (raise_flag)
>     {
>       /* The following code is needed for `raise-frame' to work on
>          some versions of metacity; see Window Manager
>          Specification/Extended Window Manager Hints at
>          http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fwm_2dspec
>
>          However, on other versions (metacity 2.17.2-1.fc7), it
>          reportedly causes hangs when resizing frames.  */
>
>       /* Lisp_Object frame;
>          const char *atom = "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW"; */
>
>       x_raise_frame (f);
>
>       /* XSETFRAME (frame, f);
>          Fx_send_client_event (frame, make_number (0), frame,
>                             make_unibyte_string (atom, strlen (atom)),
>                             make_number (32),
>                             Fcons (make_number (1),
>                                    Fcons (make_number (time (NULL) * 1000),
>                                    Qnil))); */
>     }
>   else
>     x_lower_frame (f);
> }
>
> Is is that piece of code that fails? My version of metaciy is 2.16.1.
>
> /Mathias

Thank you for confirming this bug. I have forwarded to pretest-bugs
list.

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