fn key to bring emacs forward / focus it as if c-tab were used

fn key to bring emacs forward / focus it as if c-tab were used

[Samuel Wales]

i want to assign a function key to bring emacs to the top of the
windows and focus it as if c-tab were used to get to emacs.

i figured perhaps i could assign, in fluxbox keys file, some
emacsclient call that raises emacs.

Re: fn key to bring emacs forward / focus it as if c-tab were used

[TRS-80]

On 2022-03-10 00:41, Samuel Wales wrote:
> i want to assign a function key to bring emacs to the top of the
> windows and focus it as if c-tab were used to get to emacs.
> 
> i figured perhaps i could assign, in fluxbox keys file, some
> emacsclient call that raises emacs.

Yes this is window manager functionality (IMO).

In my case, I bind all my Super (Win) keys to stuff like this, as those 
have no conflicts with Emacs.  For me, =s-S-e= will launch a new 
Emacs(client) frame.

Cheers,
TRS-80

Re: fn key to bring emacs forward / focus it as if c-tab were used

[Samuel Wales]

is there bring to front functionality in elisp/emacsclient?

On 4/5/22, TRS-80 <lists.trs-80@isnotmyreal.name> wrote:
> On 2022-03-10 00:41, Samuel Wales wrote:
>> i want to assign a function key to bring emacs to the top of the
>> windows and focus it as if c-tab were used to get to emacs.
>>
>> i figured perhaps i could assign, in fluxbox keys file, some
>> emacsclient call that raises emacs.
>
> Yes this is window manager functionality (IMO).
>
> In my case, I bind all my Super (Win) keys to stuff like this, as those
> have no conflicts with Emacs.  For me, =s-S-e= will launch a new
> Emacs(client) frame.
>
> Cheers,
> TRS-80
>
>


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Re: fn key to bring emacs forward / focus it as if c-tab were used

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Samuel Wales wrote:

> is there bring to front functionality in elisp/emacsclient?

This is something you do in your WW, normally and easily.

From Emacs - from Emacs and _with_ Emacs I should add - you
can also do it, of course, either by using e.g. EXWM which is
the Emacs X Window Manager, or simply by having Elisp execute
shell commands.

I include a bunch of commands to get you started/inspired with
that if so ...

#! /bin/zsh
#
# this file:
#   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/wm

alias {wins,wl}='wmctrl -l'

win-id () {
    case $# in
        (0) xprop -id $(xprop -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | awk '{print $5}') \
                  WM_CLIENT_LEADER | awk '{print $5}'                        ;;
        (1) wins | awk "/$1/{print \$1}"                                     ;;
        (*) echo "error: $0 accepts 0 or 1 argument (got $#)" >&2            ;;
    esac
}

show-win () {
    local win=$1
    wmctrl -a $win
}

hide-win () {
    local win=$1
    wmctrl -r $win -b toggle,hidden
}

hide-all-wins () {
    DISPLAY=":0" wmctrl -k on
}
alias hide=hide-all-wins

max-win  () {
    local win
    case $# in
        (0) win=$(win-id)
            wmctrl -i -r $win -b toggle,fullscreen ;;
        (1) win=$1
            wmctrl -r $win -b toggle,fullscreen ;;
        (*) echo "error: $0 accepts 0 or 1 argument (got $#)" >&2
    esac
}
alias fullscreen=max-win

half-win () {
    local win=$1
    wmctrl -r $win -b remove,fullscreen
    wmctrl -r $win -e 0,0,358,1024,381
}

max-wait () {
    local prog=$1
    while (( ! $(wmctrl -l | grep $prog | wc -l) )) {}
    max-win $prog
}

fullscreen-exec () {
    local prog=$1
    $prog &;
    max-wait $prog
}

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Re: fn key to bring emacs forward / focus it as if c-tab were used

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 16:29:44 -0700, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> said:

    Samuel> is there bring to front functionality in elisp/emacsclient?

Thereʼs `raise-frame', but it might not work with your window manager.

Robert
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