Re: Weirdness with Emacs' X window id

[Jan D.]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

> Peter Heslin <address@hidden> wrote,
>
>   If I do emacs -q --no-site-file with a month-old CVS checkout, and
>   then M-x eshell:
>
>   ~ $ xdpyinfo |grep -i focus
>   focus:  window 0x1400015, revert to Parent
>   ~ $ wmctrl -l |grep -i emacs
>   0x01400014 1 aideen Emacs *eshell*
>
>   where wmctrl is a command-line program and the -l switch makes it list
>   all current windows.  Note that xdpyinfo and wmctrl disagree as to
>   what should be the ID number for the single Emacs frame.  
>
>   ... Emacs is the only application I run that behaves like this.
>
> This also happens with
>
> Today's GNU Emacs CVS snapshot, Mon, 2005 Feb  7  14:18 UTC
> GNU Emacs 21.3.50.51 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.4.14)
> started with
>
>    emacs -Q
>
> Very strange.  I did not expect it.  I do not know what is going on.
>  

xdpyinfo apparently prints the client leader window id, but wmctrl 
prints the top level id.  It is normal to have the client leader window 
the same as the top level window, but Emacs does not really have one top 
level window that can be used for that purpose.  Frames come and go, and 
the client leader window is expected to exist as long as the application 
exists.  So the Emacs client leader window is a hidden window not seen.

   Jan D.