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Re: How to determine (from Elisp) whether the Emacs frame has focus?


From: Dan Espen
Subject: Re: How to determine (from Elisp) whether the Emacs frame has focus?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 01:53:11 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to know whether the selected Emacs frame has focus.  Currently,
> I'm using an xdotool/xprop combo (I'm on GNU/Linux), but I'd like to
> know whether there is a better way.  I know about focus-in-hook and
> focus-out-hook, and I could make them set/unset some global variable,
> but this looks hackish.
>
> Any ideas?

Since there doesn't seem to be an existing Emacs global variable
creating your own using those hooks isn't all that hackish.
Go for it.

-- 
Dan Espen


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