From: Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs into focus
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:33:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g7f13p$5qi$1@registered.motzarella.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.15986.1218106891.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Andrea Vettorello" <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> This won't help you a lot, but removing window decorations (and fill
> screen) is the expected behaviour of _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN (
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#id2551694
> ).
>
> Metacity, the default Gnome window manager, tries to "avoid focus
> stealing" (I think this blog post explains its behaviour:
> http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2007/12/24/stacking/ ), IIRC there
> should be a gconf setting to tweak it but I'm not completely sure as I
> don't use it...
The thing is that other email clients come to the fg just
fine via the mailto click. I'll dig around some more and maybe ask in
the gtk+ irc channel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-07 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-07 5:36 Emacs into focus Richard G Riley
2008-08-07 9:16 ` Tim X
2008-08-07 9:41 ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-07 11:01 ` Andrea Vettorello
2008-08-07 11:52 ` Chris Giroir
[not found] ` <mailman.15986.1218106891.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-07 14:33 ` Richard G Riley [this message]
2008-08-07 17:33 ` Andrea Vettorello
[not found] ` <mailman.15993.1218120233.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-07 14:53 ` Richard G Riley
2008-08-07 21:47 ` Bruce Stephens
2008-08-08 4:33 ` Tim X
2008-08-08 1:31 ` Ian Swainson
2008-08-09 22:08 ` Richard G Riley
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