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bug#2025: 23.0.60; emacsclient: frame does not get focus on opening
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Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
bug#2025: 23.0.60; emacsclient: frame does not get focus on opening |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:19:31 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:50:42 -0400 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>
>> A hint is just a hint, the WM may do as it please anyway. It is
>> considered bad behaviour to try to steal input focus when started. It
>> should depend on what policy the user has set, focus-follows-mouse or
>> click-to-focus.
>>
>> If Emacs is started with focus-follows-mouse and the mouse isn't in a
>> frame, I would expect Emacs not to have focus. However, some WMs warp
>> the mouse to newly started applications. For click-to-focus I think
>> the WM just does what it thinks is best. Some WMs have a setting
>> ("give focus to new window") which the user can use to influence this.
>>
>> So to conclude, if Emacs where to try do anything, there are window
>> managers where this would fail anyway. Better if the OP can get KWin
>> to behave. Maybe there is some option for this in KWin.
>
> According to teh Google, the Kwin setting in question is called "focus
> stealing prevention level", which should be set to "none" to allow
> newly-launched applications to acquire focus.
You beat me to the punch :-). That indeed seems to do the trick.
(Maybe I should take more time to learn about KWin -- but that would
mean having less time to spend on Emacs...)
Steve Berman