Re: open link without switching focus

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@xxxxxxx> writes:

> In [emacs-w3m : No.12086] Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> I'm trying to mess with my emacs setup so I can use w3m instead of a
>> separate browser when opening links from various RSS feeds in gnus.
>
>> The only thing stopping me is that I can't make new w3m buffers open in
>> the background, which is a pretty important part of zooming through RSS
>> feeds and stacking up what you want to read.
>
>> w3m-new-session-in-background sure looks like it should control exactly
>> this, but w3m still steals focus. Is it because I'm popping up frames?
>
> IIUC it is effective only if you are in a w3m-mode buffer and visit
> a page as a new tab.  Unfortunately, I can imagine it is hard to
> make emacs-w3m raise a frame without focusing it, since the frame
> creation relies on a window manager and Emacs doesn't necessarily
> control well any kind of system.
>
> In Cygwin, the function `raise-frame' doesn't raise nor focus an
> existing lowered frame for example (I have a workaround to make it
> work, of course ;-), so at least I'm not suited to improve it.

Thanks for the pointers! I should have realized it would probably be a
window manager issue. Luckily I'm using Stumpwm, and since I'm using w3m
in a separate frame it shouldn't be too hard to ignore raise requests
from windows with a w3m title.

Thanks again!

Eric