Can someone recommend the best way to have emacs come to the foreground
on a Linux desktop? I'm trying to get emacsclient wired up properly so I
can handle mailto URLS from iceweasel (firefox) properly. I have tried:

,----
| /usr/bin/emacsclient -e "(progn (raise-frame)(message-mail (substring \"$1\" 7) \"Subject\" '((\"from\" \"Richard Rileygmail.com>\"))))"
`----

But raise-frame does not seem to work on my Gnome desktop.

Replacing raise-frame with (bring-on-top)

where

,----
| (defun bring-on-top()
| (interactive)
| (x-send-client-message
| nil 0 nil "_NET_WM_STATE" 32 '(2 "_NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN" 1))
| )
`----

Does work but removes the WM border from the emacs frame.

Does anyone have a cleaner solution?

regards

Richard G Riley gmail.com> writes:

Richard G Riley wrote:

IIUC an app can only request to be raised, it's up to the window manager to
decide wether to honour that request or not. so you'll need to find where
in gnome this can be configured. (i run xfce, so i can't help you there...)

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Richard G Riley gmail.com> wrote:

"Andrea Vettorello" gmail.com> writes:

http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/07/25/how-to-set-default-workspace-size-and-window.../

Devilspie is a util that a lot of gnome users use to do things with
windows on creation. I bet you can make sure the title (or some other
feature) of the emacs client windows are unique and have devilspie
tell it to raise on creation.

Chris G

"Chris Giroir" valefor.com> writes:

I use emacsclient here : there are no new windows created afaik.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Richard G Riley gmail.com> wrote:

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Richard G Riley gmail.com> writes:

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That depends on configuration. (I have emacs configured so that
emacsclient always creates a new frame.)

On Thursday 07 August 2008 at 05:36 PM, Richard G Riley gmail.com> wrote:

I use wmctrl with a little script that I bind to a key combination which
either brings the app to the foreground or starts it if it is not running:

#!/bin/sh

###

# Switch to a screen or do something

###

if ! wmctrl -a $1; then $2; fi

I save this as switchto and then:

switchto "Mozilla Firefox" "firefox"

Perhaps wmctrl could be used in the same way for emacs?

Cheers,
ian

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Ian Swainson