Re: customizing emacs windows

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Petter Gustad <newsmail6@gustad.com> writes:

> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>
>
>> so rarely that its not really been necessary. I usually have about
>> 15 different workspaces and different emacs frames on most of
>> them. I then just switch between workspaces using two function keys
>> or by moving the mouse to the left or right edge of the screen.
>
> I prefer to select Emacs frames using a popup menu. I've made a
> function in sawfish which pops up a menu of all Emacs frames:
>
> (provide 'menu-of)
> (require 'sawfish.wm.menus)
>
> (defun wm-class-is (w class)
>   (equal (aref (get-x-text-property w 'WM_CLASS) 1) class))
>
> (defun emacs-p (w)
>   (wm-class-is w "Emacs"))
>
> (defun xterm-p (w)
>   (wm-class-is w "XTerm"))
>
> (defun popup-menu-of (pred)
>   "make popup windows of a certain type"
>   (popup-menu 
>    (mapcar #'(lambda (w) 
>                (list (window-name w) 
>                      (lambda () 
>                        (uniconify-window w)
>                        (x-raise-window w)
>                        (set-input-focus w))))
>            (filter pred (managed-windows)))))
>
> (defun menu-of-emacs ()
>   "make a popup menu of emacs windows"
>   (interactive)
>   (popup-menu-of emacs-p))
>
> (defun menu-of-xterm ()
>   "make a popup menu of xterm windows"
>   (interactive)
>   (popup-menu-of xterm-p))
>
>
> Then in the global keymap I bind menu-of-emacs to e.g. to H-1 so when I
> press the Windows key and 1 I get a popup menu of all Emacs frames.
>
> Petter
>
> -- 
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Petter Gustad         8'h2B | ~8'h2B        http://www.gustad.com/petter

Exactly why I love sawfish as a wm! The combination of sawfish and emacs is
truely friendly.

Thanks for the code snippets.

Tim
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