Re: display-buffer

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

 >    No its the same or at least I can't any difference.  My window
 >    manager is metacity and it works/is configured for click-to-focus
 >    (not a lisp variable?)  However focus-follows-mouse is t, but I
 >    guess Emacs can't overrule the window manager.
 > 
 > I have not been following this thread.  But unless I misunderstand the
 > above, your window manager is configured for click-to-focus and you
 > have focus-follows-mouse set to t.  If so, you are unavoidably going to
 > experience some buggish feeling behavior.  The purpose of
 > `focus-follows-mouse' is to inform Emacs how your window manager
 > behaves.  Its purpose is not to have Emacs try to overrule your window
 > manager.  If I understood you correctly, you should set
 > focus-follows-mouse set to nil.

I can't see any difference in behaviour when focus-follows-mouse is t or nil.
If I configure metacity so that focus follows mouse, then display-buffer and
other lisp commands seem to behave as before, although clearly focus now
changes if I move the mouse from one Emacs frame to another.

Nick