From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: acm@muc.de, 44517@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44517: 28.0.50; Can't unselect minibuffer window
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2020 14:02:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201108140214.GB18190@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0uwjamq.fsf@web.de>
Hello, Michael.
On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 13:28:29 +0100, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Hello,
> since some days, I experience the following issue: when I call
> (read-from-minibuffer "Enter something: ")
> and select a different window, ....
With the mouse? With C-x o?
> .... the minibuffer window automatically gets re-selected after a
> short period of time.
How short? 0.5s, 2s, 10s? Knowing this might help identify the
associated timer.
> I did not yet figure out how to reproduce for emacs -Q; with the
> default settings, it is not reproducible there.
> With my setup, the issue gets fixed when I do
> (setq minibuffer-follows-selected-frame nil)
Thanks. That suggests, vaguely, that the problem might be in the
function move_minibuffer_onto_frame (in src/minibuf.c), which takes no
action when minibuffer-follows-selected-frame is nil.
> I CC Alan hoping 2ecbf4cfae, "Allow minibuffer to stay in its original
> frame. Tidy up this area." is related and he can help so that I can
> get around finding a recipe or digging further (well, it's Sunday).
I strongly suspect your bug and that patch are related. Despite it
being Sunday, could you perhaps nevertheless dig around a bit in the
hope of finding a recipe.
Thanks!
> TIA,
> Michael.
> In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 94, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.23, cairo version 1.16.0)
> of 2020-11-08 built on drachen
> Repository revision: 1b2fde216cf9328578b6a6a9a8ce0ce51035304c
> Repository branch: master
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12008000
> System Description: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid
> Configured features:
> XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY
> INOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ ZLIB
> TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS JSON PDUMPER LCMS2
> Important settings:
> value of $LC_ALL: de_DE.utf8
> value of $LC_COLLATE: C
> value of $LC_TIME: C
> value of $LANG: de_DE.utf8
> locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-08 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-08 12:28 bug#44517: 28.0.50; Can't unselect minibuffer window Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-08 14:02 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2020-11-08 16:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-08 16:48 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-08 17:31 ` martin rudalics
2020-11-08 17:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-09 10:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-09 11:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-11-08 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-08 17:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-08 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
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