Re: raise-frame doesn't work in Fedora Core 4

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

Hi again,

I recalled this bug has not been solved yet.

>>>>> Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

> For instance, I couldn't make the Emacs frame (which was
> existing but was lowered behind the other frames) pop to the
> front using `C-x 5 b'.

I'm now in Fedora 7 that I update everyday.  It runs the metacity
window manager and the problem seems to happen only with LUCID
(not GTK) Emacs on it.  The concrete way to reproduce this bug is:

1. Start Emacs with the -Q option.
2. Type `C-x 5 b *Messages* RET'.
   Now there are two Emacs frames as follows:
+-------------+
|             |
|     +--------------+
|     |              |
|  *sc|              |
+-----|              |
      |  *Messages*  |
      +--------------+
3. Select the *scratch* frame by the mouse.
+-------------+
|             |
|             |------+
|             |      |
|  *scratch*  |      |
+-------------+      |
      |  *Messages*  |
      +--------------+
4. Type `C-x 5 b *Messages* RET' in the *scratch* frame.
   But the *Messages* frame is neither raised nor focused.

Jan Djärv wrote to me a half year ago in:
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg11474.html

> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392889.  My last comment
> was that we may enable _NET_ACTIVATE_WINDOW, but it has been postponed
> to after the release.

The problem I brought up then seems to have been solved now.
However, it seems to be likely different from this.  The whole
thread that contain this article is:

http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.emacs.devel/thread=61471/force_load=t

Regards,