From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: <moss@cs.umass.edu>
Cc: Russell VT <russellvt@gmail.com>, cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: emacs-everywhere
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 15:36:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5bpmmw5udv.fsf@ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ccf8f950-784e-b3d2-295b-9dd760f9c0f1@cs.umass.edu> (Eliot Moss's message of "Tue\, 8 Mar 2022 08\:55\:53 -0500")
Eliot Moss writes:
> ...
> It does occur to me, however, that if I am willing to run
> Thunderbird from WSL, this all might work more or less out of the
> box. But the stumbling block at present is the lack of xdotool that
> can be invoked by emacsclient to start an emacs-everywhere pop-up
> window. Unless someone with deeper knowledge of emacs /
> emacs-everywhere or of X innards can suggest another way to do that.
Not sure if this is any help, but I gave up on xdotool some time ago,
as bugs are not getting fixed and I don't have the X chops to fix
them.
Similar and in many ways easier to use is pyautogui:
https://pypi.org/project/PyAutoGUI/
It has worked well for me in cases where I used to use xdotool.
Your mileage may vary...
ht
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-06 23:48 emacs-everywhere Eliot Moss
2022-03-07 2:00 ` emacs-everywhere Russell VT
2022-03-07 3:33 ` emacs-everywhere Eliot Moss
2022-03-08 9:49 ` emacs-everywhere Russell VT
2022-03-08 13:55 ` emacs-everywhere Eliot Moss
2022-03-08 15:36 ` Henry S. Thompson [this message]
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