Re: [RP] clever hack to make firefox top of stack?

[Ted Walther]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 01:51:23AM -0500, Shawn Betts wrote:
> Ted Walther <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I have an instance of Firefox running.  firefox -remote seems to have
> > no problem finding the running instance and telling it to do stuff.
> >
> > Is there some simple clever hack to raise the firefox instance to the
> > top of the stack in ratpoison?  The manpage for firefox doesn't seem
> > to have that option, and I'm not sure how reliable it is grepping for
> > the term "Firefox" in the window titles.
>
> Doesn't something cheap like the following work?
>
> ratpoison -c 'select firefox'
>
> > By the way here is some nifty bits from my .xbindkeysrc
>
> ratpoison has top level bindings now. There's no longer any need for
> xbindkeys.

Really?  You've fixed the problem with PrintScreen having two different
keycodes and only the first one being mapped to PrintScreen by
ratpoison?

Can I bind at the top level to arbitrary keycodes+modmaps?  xbindkeys
has a nifty utility that lets me press buttons on the keyboard and shows
me exactly what keycode it is, so I can use all those funky
mail/web/audio buttons on my M$ keyboard.

> > I'd really like the cutpaste-url script to raise firefox to the top
> > of hte window stack so I can see the URL I just pasted.
>
> If you're running a new enough ratpoison you could add:
>
> $RATPOISON -c 'select firefox'
>
> the RATPOISON env var was added to 1.4 I think.

select firefox assumes the word "firefox" is somewhere in the windows
title.  I don't feel comfortable with that assumption.  What does
$RATPOISON do?  How does it work?  It expands to the pathname of the
ratpoison binary, right?  In which environment is it defined?

> > Also, how do I disable the automatic URL highlighting in emacs?  I
> > want to be able to double click an URL to "select" it, then press F12
> > at my leisure; sometimes I just want to select parts of an URL and
> > emacs current highlighting behavior is annoying.
>
> If you're selecting text in emacs with the mouse you have bigger
> problems to worry about.

I want to highlight an URL with the mouse in emacs then press F12 to
have a firefox tab pop open.  Or a Conkeror tab.  Is it still in
developement?  Works with the latest Firefox?

Ted

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