From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: focus-follows-mouse
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 20:16:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <851w4g8vlq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alej8gei6l.fsf@nyc-qws-005.delacy.com> (Sam Steingold's message of "Mon, 05 May 2008 14:09:54 -0400")
"Sam Steingold" <ssteingold@janestcapital.com> writes:
> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.4 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
> of 2008-05-05 on nyc-qws-005
> '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--prefix=/mnt/office/dev/opt'
>
> I just noticed that I need to click the mouse to switch the focus
> between emacs windows (as opposed to emacs frames/X windows which are
> switched between based on the mouse movement).
> Even though the documentation of focus-follows-mouse makes it abundantly
> clear that this is not the intent of the variable, I think it would be
> better if emacs switched the emacs window focus based on mouse movement
> when this variable is set to non-nil.
I disagree since that makes the desktop inconsistent. Even if Emacs
could reliably ignore the window manager for such functions.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-05 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 18:09 focus-follows-mouse Sam Steingold
2008-05-05 18:16 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-05-05 18:35 ` focus-follows-mouse Sam Steingold
2008-05-05 19:06 ` focus-follows-mouse Stefan Monnier
2008-05-05 20:01 ` focus-follows-mouse David Kastrup
2008-05-05 20:56 ` focus-follows-mouse martin rudalics
2008-05-05 23:11 ` focus-follows-mouse Miles Bader
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