Re: ediff control frame doesn't start with focus

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> The control frame is only not selected if it is already existing and
>> iconified, or if `ediff-use-long-help-message' is set to a non-nil
>> value, or if your window manager prevents Emacs from setting input
>> focus.
>> Could one of these points be true for you?
> None is true for me.

I wonder how you can be so sure that it can't be that "your window
manager prevents Emacs from setting input focus".  I think most people
who have worked on this part of Emacs's code would find it hard to
answer this question definitively.


        Stefan