From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Hill Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with X window frames Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:37:56 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87r8bg6vlr.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042570385 7700 80.91.224.249 (14 Jan 2003 18:53:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18YWBI-0001zI-00 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:53:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YW8B-0002sj-0A for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:49:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YW7N-0002N7-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:48:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YVxt-00068I-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:39:09 -0500 Original-Received: from renfield.synergymicro.com ([153.105.4.30] helo=synergymicro.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YVx9-0005eR-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:38:23 -0500 Original-Received: from synergy.synergy.encinitas.ca.us ([153.105.4.29]) by synergymicro.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01467 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:39:22 -0800 Original-Received: from [198.17.100.22] (G-Hill-Mac [198.17.100.22])KAA10662 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:44:02 -0800 In-Reply-To: <87r8bg6vlr.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5482 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5482 >There is a chance this could be due to your window manager. I've found >some window managers will over-ride what emacs is trying to do. For >example, for ages everytime I opened speedbar, the frame would be >exactly the same size as my normal frame, despite the speedbar frame >attributes being set to create a narrow high frame. I eventually >worked out this was due to my window manager. > >If your window manager has some setting like "click to focus" or >"click to raise and focus" its possible this is over-riding what emacs >itself is trying to do. > >Tim Tim, Thanks, you're right. I am using a program called eXodus on a MAC as my terminal to the Unix machine on which I am running Emacs. It never occurred to me that it might be a problem with my eXodus configuration, but that is what it was. Under Server Settings, Rootless Options, there is checkbox for "Allow Client to Change Window Stacking." Selecting that solved my problem with raising and lowering frames. Now if I can just figure out how to get "focus-follows-mouse" to work. Does anyone happen to know the trick for that? Once again, besides using eXodus on a MAC as my terminal, my platform is seem by Emacs as: system-configuration "sparc-sun-solaris2.7" system-type usg-unix-v emacs-version "21.2.2" window-system x Thanks again. --Greg