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 15:51:49 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87r8bg6vlr.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <841y3f5v12.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042588396 28953 80.91.224.249 (14 Jan 2003 23:53:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:53:16 +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 18Yarq-0007Wm-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:53:14 +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 18Yarp-0005jo-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:53:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YarM-0005F0-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:52:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Yar8-0004dQ-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:52:34 -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 18Yar2-0004Lj-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:52:24 -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 PAA05260 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:53:23 -0800 Original-Received: from [198.17.100.22] (G-Hill-Mac [198.17.100.22])PAA06848 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:57:54 -0800 In-Reply-To: <841y3f5v12.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> 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:5491 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5491 At 9:35 PM +0100 1/14/03, Kai Gro=DFjohann wrote: >Greg Hill 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 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. --------------------- 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