Re: Make raise-frame work on Cygwin

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> raise-frame doesn't pop up an existing frame on Cygwin (rootless).
> If there are many frames on a Windows screen, we have no means to
> pop up a certain Emacs frame that is hidden by the other frames,
> except for manually digging it up by mouse.  But at last I found
> a workaround:

> (defadvice raise-frame (before make-it-work (&optional frame) activate)
>   "Make it work on Cygwin."
>   (when frame (make-frame-invisible frame)))

Some program tries to raise the selected frame even if it is
the sole one, so this should be turned into:

(defadvice raise-frame (before make-it-work (&optional frame) activate)
  "Make it work on Cygwin."
  (when (and frame (not (eq frame (selected-frame))))
    (make-frame-invisible frame)))

> iconify-frame instead of make-frame-invisible there has no effect.
> It also revealed that some ELisp applications call raise-frame two
> or more times at a time since a raised frame blinks. ;-)

> BTW, I still use wmctrl on Fedora:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-10/msg01117.html