From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mouse-autoselect-window
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:49:25 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ISy4D-002KIdC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87myw1p8yb.fsf@escher.local.home> (message from Stephen Berman on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:56:12 +0200)
The original post described a desire to shift automatically from frame
to frame. You can only do that with a focus-follows-mouse policy.
When you have a click-to-focus policy in your window manager, I would
expect having to click on a new frame -- I do not expect an instance
of Emacs within a window manager to govern an enclosing window
manager.
That may be our difference.
The documentation for mouse-autoselect-window says
Non-nil means autoselect window with mouse pointer.
and does not refer to frames at all, so I would not expect to select a
different frame unless I had focus-follows-mouse policy.
Try auto-selecting an Emacs window in another frame when you have a
focus-follows-mouse policy turned on. Of course, the action may be
the window manager's doing.
Indeed, I suspect it is; it does not matter, since it shows that some
one can shift automatically from frame to frame.
I cannot doing anything for window managers that are limited in their
focus policies.
--
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2007-09-05 5:53 mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-05 10:36 ` mouse-autoselect-window Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-05 10:49 ` mouse-autoselect-window David Kastrup
2007-09-05 12:56 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-05 16:49 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2007-09-05 22:46 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-05 23:08 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jason Rumney
2007-09-06 16:36 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-06 17:23 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-06 20:05 ` mouse-autoselect-window David Kastrup
2007-09-06 21:12 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jason Rumney
2007-09-06 18:42 ` mouse-autoselect-window Davis Herring
2007-09-07 3:28 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2007-09-07 8:26 ` mouse-autoselect-window Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-07 8:58 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-07 15:54 ` mouse-autoselect-window Davis Herring
2007-09-07 18:21 ` mouse-autoselect-window Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-07 19:46 ` mouse-autoselect-window Davis Herring
2007-09-08 7:05 ` mouse-autoselect-window Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-08 8:08 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jan Djärv
2007-09-08 0:46 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jason Rumney
2007-09-08 7:00 ` mouse-autoselect-window Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-08 9:31 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-08 20:56 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jason Rumney
2007-09-07 18:20 ` mouse-autoselect-window Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-07 8:32 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-07 17:01 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2007-09-07 18:56 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-08 7:53 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jan Djärv
2007-09-06 3:04 ` mouse-autoselect-window Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 16:35 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-05 18:04 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-05 22:46 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-06 9:35 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-06 16:37 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-06 17:28 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-06 21:40 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-06 20:58 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jason Rumney
2007-09-06 21:11 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-07 0:02 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 6:45 ` mouse-autoselect-window Leo
2007-09-07 8:33 ` mouse-autoselect-window Andreas Schwab
2007-09-06 12:01 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-06 12:22 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-06 14:17 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-06 15:10 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-06 16:00 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-06 17:31 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-06 18:20 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-06 20:46 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-06 22:58 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-07 6:51 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-07 7:33 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-07 8:09 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-07 12:31 ` mouse-autoselect-window Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-07 8:38 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-07 8:09 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-07 8:53 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-07 9:16 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-07 9:33 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-06 14:30 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stefan Monnier
2007-09-06 15:44 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-18 7:02 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-18 10:16 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-18 14:07 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-18 21:00 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-18 14:41 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-18 15:34 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-18 16:10 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-18 16:47 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-18 17:04 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-18 21:01 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-09-28 9:11 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-29 21:45 ` mouse-autoselect-window Glenn Morris
2007-09-30 8:47 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-30 21:48 ` mouse-autoselect-window Glenn Morris
2007-10-01 6:29 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-11-07 12:18 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-11-07 13:13 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-11-07 14:30 ` mouse-autoselect-window Stephen Berman
2007-11-07 15:32 ` mouse-autoselect-window martin rudalics
2007-09-18 22:24 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jason Rumney
2007-09-18 22:46 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-18 23:13 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jason Rumney
2007-09-18 23:24 ` mouse-autoselect-window Drew Adams
2007-09-19 4:02 ` mouse-autoselect-window Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-05 17:33 ` mouse-autoselect-window Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-05 17:52 ` mouse-autoselect-window Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <31071.1189309764@cs.sunysb.edu>
2007-09-09 9:43 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jason Rumney
2007-09-09 13:52 ` mouse-autoselect-window Michael Kifer
2007-09-09 14:09 ` mouse-autoselect-window Jason Rumney
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-29 19:01 mouse-autoselect-window Robert Marshall
2003-12-29 21:48 ` mouse-autoselect-window Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-29 22:49 ` mouse-autoselect-window Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.745.1072738378.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-30 7:20 ` mouse-autoselect-window Robert Marshall
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