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From: John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to determine (from Elisp) whether the Emacs frame has focus?
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:05:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOj2CQSHk5pvWR-0yrU_VhPMo65hhHAs132W1LPV1LMMYkGWtg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fv09o9p5.fsf@mbork.pl>

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
> 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.

Not that I can tell.

I'm not sure if it would end up less hackish, but an alternative to
global variables might be to use frame parameters. See the info nodes
"(Elisp) Frame Parameters" and "(Elisp) Parameter Access".

-- 
john



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-14  4:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-13 21:45 How to determine (from Elisp) whether the Emacs frame has focus? Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-14  3:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-11-14  4:05 ` John Mastro [this message]
2015-11-14  7:30   ` tomas
2015-11-14  8:44     ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-14 10:45       ` tomas
2015-11-14 20:28         ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-14  8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-14  8:36   ` Random832
2015-11-14  9:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-14 12:34       ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-14 13:40         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-15  7:45           ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-15 19:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-16 14:08             ` Nicolas Richard
2015-11-16 16:58               ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-14 21:10         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-16 17:00           ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-14  8:42   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-14  8:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-14 10:54       ` Yuri Khan
2015-11-14 11:04         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-14  8:44   ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-11-14 10:15     ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found] <mailman.2293.1447451126.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-16  6:53 ` Dan Espen
2015-11-17  0:10   ` Emanuel Berg

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