From: Joe Riel <jriel@maplesoft.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Transferring focus to Emacs
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:14:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110614231449.06386484@gauss> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r56wbapm.fsf@gmail.com>
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:10:29 +0200
Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote:
> Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> writes:
>
> > I want a separate program to give the focus to Emacs, and put the
> > cursor in a particular (existing) buffer.
>
> Try wmctrl:
>
> wmctrl -xa emacs
> emacsclient do_what_you_have _to_do
> wmctrl -xa go_back_to_initial_window (optional e.g firefox)
Here's a variation on the theme. Now I want to switch
focus back to the original window. I know the process
number of a subprocess running in that window. Is there
a way I can use it to find the process of the window
(and finally the window itself)?
--
Joe Riel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-15 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-14 16:45 Transferring focus to Emacs Joe Riel
2011-06-14 17:10 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-06-14 19:25 ` Joe Riel
2011-06-15 6:14 ` Joe Riel [this message]
2011-06-15 8:34 ` Peter Dyballa
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