bug#10002: frame-visible-p reporting t instead of 'icon

[Jan D.]

Hi.

Are you running Gnome 3 or Unity by any chance?
See here: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9893.

        Jan D.



Antoine Levitt skrev 2011-11-09 10:41:
> Hi,
>
> Has there been any recent changes to the code that detects when a frame
> is visible or not on GTK? I didn't find anything in bzr log, but I can't
> be sure.
>
> The following snippet sometimes (erratically) reports "t" when it should
> report "icon". That started happening one, maybe two weeks ago.
>
> (defun blah (&rest args)
>    (pp(frame-visible-p (selected-frame))))
>
> (run-with-timer 2 nil 'blah)
>
> (eval the run-with-timer, switch virtual desktops for two seconds, come
> back)
>
> I'm using frame-visible-p to handle notifications (notify me when I
> don't see what's happening in emacs), so this bug is pretty annoying.
>
> It might be a bug in my display environment, but I haven't changed
> anything in a while.
>
> (for reference, I'm using gnome-panel with metacity on ubuntu 11.10)