From: Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Distinguish inactive windows
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:52:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110623175236.0cfa498d@gauss> (raw)
I'm creating an application where focus is in a particular Emacs
frame, call it the control panel. Events in the control panel affect
a selected window in a separate frame. How can the selected window be
visually distinguished from the other windows in its frame? I'd like
to, say, set mode-line background of the selected window to a
particular color. Using (set-face-background 'mode-line-inactive
"yellow") doesn't work because that changes the mode-line of all
inactive windows, not just the one desired. Similarly, setting
mode-line doesn't work because the active window is in the control
panel, not the one that is being changed.
--
Joe Riel
next reply other threads:[~2011-06-24 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-24 0:52 Joe Riel [this message]
2011-06-24 2:45 ` Distinguish inactive windows Alp Aker
2011-06-25 4:47 ` Joe Riel
2011-06-25 16:00 ` Alp Aker
2011-06-24 2:51 ` Alp Aker
2011-06-24 5:38 ` Joe Riel
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