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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, Gulliver Smith <gulliver.m.smith@gmail.com>
Cc: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>,
Oliver Schmidt <oschmidt-mailinglists@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Window manager commands in native window manager multiwindow mode
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 16:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56169D11.6080204@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56153EE7.3020602@cornell.edu>
On 10/7/2015 11:48 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/7/2015 11:20 AM, Gulliver Smith wrote:
>> I ask this question from time to time just in case someone new sees it
>> and decides to work on it or others might agree that it is a priority.
>> Other people have raised this over the last few years as well.
>>
>> The issue is that I would like to raise windows from within a program
>> (Emacs to be precise), but it doesn't work with the native window
>> manager running in multiwindow mode.
>>
>> Emacs has several nice commands for which I have not-so-nice work
>> arounds (opening and closing windows). These are:
>>
>> (raise-frame f)
>> (iconify-frame f)
>> (decionify-frame f)
>> (make-frame-visible f)
>>
>> None of these work with Cygwin X.
>
> Please give a detailed recipe for reproducing the problem.
Never mind. I searched the archive and found the details in an earlier
post of yours:
https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2011-08/msg00046.html
Here's what I found when I tried to reproduce the problem:
>> (raise-frame f)
I agree that this doesn't work. But there's a post by Oliver Schmidt
(https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2011-08/msg00047.html)
purporting to have a fix for this. There is later discussion in which
Jon Turney had some questions about the patch, but I didn't read all of
it. Jon, was this ever resolved?
>> (iconify-frame f)
This works.
>> (decionify-frame f)
There's no such function in GNU emacs (even after correcting the obvious
typo).
>> (make-frame-visible f)
This seems to be working. Maybe you're misunderstanding what "visible"
means in this context (or maybe I am). The frame is initially visible,
even if other windows are hiding it, as evidenced by the fact that
(frame-visible-p f) evaluates to something non-nil ('icon' if the frame
is iconified, 't' otherwise). If I now make it invisible by evaluating
(make-frame-invisible f), both the frame and its icon disappear.
There's no way to bring it to the front by using Alt-Tab. The frame and
icon reappear if I now evaluate (make-frame-visible f).
In summary, the only problem I see is with raise-frame, and maybe that
one is fixable. We'll have to wait to hear from Jon and/or Oliver.
Ken
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2015-10-07 15:20 Gulliver Smith
2015-10-07 15:48 ` Ken Brown
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