Re: Emacsclient does not raise frame

[Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 9:03:41 PM UTC+5:30, Rusi wrote:
> With a lot of jumping through hoops Ive managed to get firefox to
> call emacs(client) and save links+description(title)+selection(in firefox; optional) into an org mode capture buffer.
> 
> However the call to emacsclient does not raise the frame... At least not consistently
> 
> Currently my hack is to write my own shell wrapper to emacsclient doing
> 
> wmctrl -c emacs
> emacsclient -c $*
> wmctrl -a emacs
> 
> Is there some other thing I dont know to raise the emacs frame?
> 
> Also the -c I am forced to use because without it, if there is not an existing
> frame (emacs started in --daemon mode) it does not work
> 
> 
> Emacs 25.1.1
> Gnome-Unity

Best Ive come to is this (my wrapper of emacsclient)

#!/bin/bash
if wmctrl -a emacs;  then
    emacsclient -n $*
else
    emacsclient -n -c $*
fi

There really needs to be an emacsclient option for this:
Because currently if
- emacs is started as --daemon
- emacsclient is started without -c

It tries to open non-GUI emacs
So it works if the client is run from a shell
And fails if started from another script (in my case firefox)