Re: closing emacsclient always focuses another emacs window

[lee]

Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:

> Hi Trygve,
> * trygve.flathen@gmail.com <trygve.flathen@gmail.com> [06. Mar. 2014]:
>> I edit files from my terminal with an alias doing emacsclient -c file
>>   & When I later close the window with C-#, focus will always be
>>   given to another emacs window, even across my virtual desktops.
>> 
>> How can I make focus return to the terminal (or whatever had focus
>> just before) when I close the emacsclient window?
>> 
>> Searching for this problem is hard since it is vastly outnumbered by
>> problems regarding focus on opening the client instead of closing. I
>> found https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187718, but that
>> discussion focuses (no pun intended) on kde.
>
>
> I had the very same problem.  If focus-follows-mouse is non-nil
> on your system please have a look at
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7553

FWIW, I´m using fvwm with FocusFollowsMouse and don´t have this
problem.  Fvwm strictly focuses the window which happens to be under the
mouse pointer as it should.

The problem is very likely with the WM of kde having a strange idea
about what FocusFollowsMouse means.

> Perhaps setting focus-follows-mouse to nil helps.

FocusFollowsMouse is one of the required basic features a WM must have
before I´d consider it as useable.  Using fvwm instead of the WM kde
comes with might be a better solution.


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