From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to determine (from Elisp) whether the Emacs frame has focus? Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 22:45:10 +0100 Message-ID: <87fv09o9p5.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447451147 28894 80.91.229.3 (13 Nov 2015 21:45:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:45:47 +0000 (UTC) To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 13 22:45:37 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxMA3-0000Xc-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 22:45:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55393 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxMA2-00029L-TA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:45:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60781) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxM9s-00026i-6s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:45:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxM9p-0003G9-1K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:45:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:45955) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxM9o-0003G2-Qx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:45:20 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C460C8F201B for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 22:45:16 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2KZh4xH5Fnjr for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 22:45:14 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [109.232.24.28]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 649D88F201A for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 22:45:14 +0100 (CET) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.15; emacs 25.0.50.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108049 Archived-At: Hi all, I'd like to know whether the selected Emacs frame has focus. Currently, I'm using an xdotool/xprop combo (I'm on GNU/Linux), but I'd like to know whether there is a better way. I know about focus-in-hook and focus-out-hook, and I could make them set/unset some global variable, but this looks hackish. Any ideas? -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University