Re: Problem with X window frames

[Greg Hill <ghill@synergymicro.com>]

At 9:35 PM +0100 1/14/03, Kai Großjohann wrote:
>Greg Hill <ghill@synergymicro.com> writes:
>
>>  Now if I can just figure out how to get "focus-follows-mouse" to work.
>>  Does anyone happen to know the trick for that?
>
>Does it work for other programs?  (Try two xterms.)
>
>Or do you want to do something else than my first sentence implies?

Here's an odd twist.  focus-follows-mouse DOES work, sort-of, but
only after I resize a frame by dragging on its corner.  I have to
actually change the size of the frame for this to work.  If I click
and drag on the corner but retun it to its original position before
unclicking, that does not make focus-follows-mouse work.  It doesn't
matter what frame I resize.  If I open three frames, resizing any one
of them does the trick.  But then if I change focus, either by
clicking on a frame or by calling raise-frame, or if I close a frame
or open a new one, focus-follows-mouse stops working until after I
resize a frame again.  Also, calling set-frame-height or
set-frame-size does change the size of the frame, but it does not
make focus-follows-mouse start working.

I have tried every eXodus configuration option in the Rootless
Options, XServer Options and X Extensions catagories, and none of
them seems to have any effect on the way this works (except for one
which prevents focus-follows-mouse from ever working.)

One of my co-workers, who has a PC instead of a MAC, can't get
focus-follows-mouse to ever work, under any circumstances.  Another,
who has a Sun workstation, never has any problems with focus-follows
mouse.  We are all running the same Emacs on the same host.


At 4:33 PM -0500 1/14/03, Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com wrote:
>The focus-follows-mouse variable is a variable that you have to set
>manually to tell Emacs how your window-manager behaves.

It doesn't seem to make any difference whether I set
focus-follows-mouse to either t or nil.

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Just had a little chat with our local X guru.  He just laughed and
told me not to waste my time trying to get focus-follows-mouse to
work correctly under eXodus, 'cause it ain't gonna happen.

Thanks for the help, everyone.

--Greg