From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mouse-movement getting in the way Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:44:13 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87fvh9z42a.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407361553 5321 80.91.229.3 (6 Aug 2014 21:45:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 21:45:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 06 23:45:47 2014 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 1XF91m-0003YZ-MB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:45:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41658 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XF91m-0007pl-87 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:45:46 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 54 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:VOG1G0k311JKv6H41ZGEBEkDWak= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206829 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:99104 Archived-At: Sam Halliday writes: > I am running Emacs 24.3.1 on GNU/Linux with xmonad as > my window manager. I have 3 monitors. > > I try to avoid using the mouse Good :) (But remember the words of Master Yoda: "Do, or do not. There is no try.") > but sometimes I need to use it in other applications. Perhaps you can setup a shortcut in Emacs that will take you to that other window/application? If that other application is in X, you can use xbindkeys to get a shortcut to get back from X (or from "non-Emacs X", if you use Emacs in X as well). That will work for all applications running in X. I don't know about xmonad but I know that with Openbox you can use wmctrl, and you can find a couple of examples here [1]. Check out the manpages for xbindkeys and wmctrl for more. > When I move the mouse from one of my other screens > into the screen running emacs, the first command I > type will always fail with a minibuffer error e.g. > > C-c is undefined Will this happen for *any* command? That sounds like a bug. You can report it with `report-emacs-bug'. If you don't use Emacs for mails you can either start with that, which will enhance your game considerably in an instant, or if you don't want to do that I'm sure there is another way to report bugs - either someone on this list will tell you, or you could search the Emacs homepage for what to do. Perhaps using the information you get with report-emacs-bug and just yank (paste) it into an email will do - only like I said, I wouldn't recommend that but instead that you use Emacs (perhaps you already do that, I don't know). Good luck! [1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/.zsh/wm -- underground experts united