From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Enberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: completing-read (and M-x) with pop-up-frames non-nilchangesframefocus Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:51:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <20050720225111.9E9FE4016@rocksteady.printf.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121902432 15917 80.91.229.2 (20 Jul 2005 23:33:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:33:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 21 01:33:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvO4E-0001nw-3n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:33:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvO6G-0008R7-Lr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:35:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DvNzL-0001AS-0W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:28:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DvNzI-00018Q-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvNxB-0000KL-21 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DvNYj-0001oB-Up; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rocksteady.printf.se (81.224.154.131) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B93717004A0AE3; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:51:11 +0200 Original-Received: by rocksteady.printf.se (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9E9FE4016; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:51:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (rms@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41098 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41098 > From: "Richard M. Stallman" > Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:09:09 -0400 > > My bad. So users must set it, to tell Emacs about the window manager. But > couldn't the default value be defined reasonably for a few common window > managers? > > In most window managers, this behavior is customizable. And I don't > know if there is even a way to find out which window manager is > running, on most systems. I don't know if there is a way to find out > what the setting is. > > Maybe some X expert could find out to what extent Emacs could > find this out. There is no X standard for this, each window manager does it in its own way.