Re: ediff control frame doesn't start with focus

[Tomas Nordin]

Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> writes:

> On Tue, 02 Feb 2021 22:06:02 +0100
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
>
>> Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> writes:
>> 
>> > When launching ediff (emacs 26.1) the floating frame that controls the
>> > session isn't automatically being selected, I have to do so manually.
>> > Is there a way to configure it so that it is selected at the launch?  
>> 
>> As far as I recall, the behavior you want is the default behavior, and
>> has been for a long time.
>> 
>> The control frame is only not selected if it is already existing and
>> iconified, or if `ediff-use-long-help-message' is set to a non-nil
>> value, or if your window manager prevents Emacs from setting input
>> focus.
>> 
>> Could one of these points be true for you?
>
> I recently upgraded my Debian distro from 9 to 10.  That's when
> the behavior changed.  I recall that, some years ago, the default
> behavior was for the ediff control frame to not get focus initially.
> Then it started working (either with change to Emacs or distro, don't recall).
> Now its back to not working [my opinion].
>
> I verified that ediff-use-long-help-messages is nil and that the
> frame doesn't already exist.

At work on ms windows the behavior was always that the ediff frame gets
focus when started. On my Debian (as far back as I can remember, a few
debian versions), it never got focus. Me too prefer get focus. I never
understood why and just assumed it had something to do with the relation
Emacs/Gnome.

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Tomas