Re: Emacs into focus

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

Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> Can someone recommend the best way to have emacs come to the foreground
> on a Linux desktop? I'm trying to get emacsclient wired up properly so I
> can handle mailto URLS from iceweasel (firefox) properly. I have tried:
>
> ,----
> | /usr/bin/emacsclient -e "(progn (raise-frame)(message-mail (substring \"$1\" 7) \"Subject\"  '((\"from\"  \"Richard Riley<rileyrgdev@gmail.com>\"))))"
> `----
>
> But raise-frame does not seem to work on my Gnome desktop.
>
> Replacing raise-frame with (bring-on-top)
>
> where
>
> ,----
> | (defun bring-on-top()
> |   (interactive)
> |    (x-send-client-message
> |     nil 0 nil "_NET_WM_STATE" 32 '(2 "_NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN" 1))
> | )
> `----
>
> Does work but removes the WM border from the emacs frame.
>
> Does anyone have a cleaner solution?
>

I'm not that familiar with gnome, but focus and raising/lowering of
frames is usually managed by the window manager. Maybe tehre is
something you can set at that level which will make things work more the
way you want?

Tim


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