At Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:13:09 -0400 Chris Siebenmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I use GNU Emacs (and fvwm3), and unfortunately a small irritation with > this is that GNU Emacs has a quite irritating habit of de-iconifying > (and I think raising itself to the top of the window stack) any time it > finishes a long-running Lisp operation. If I start an operation that > takes a long time and iconify GNU Emacs, I want it to stay that way, > I don't want it to suddenly spring open like a giant modal popup. It is doubtful that there is any way to make FVWM ignore this without "breaking" other things. You probably need to get onto the GNU Emacs list and ask there if there is some Emacs trick (a setting / global-variable / ???) that can change GNU Emacs's behaviour. > > This behavior appears to be burried deeply inside GNU Emacs so that I > can't modify it with the normal GNU Emacs ELisp tools. As a result, I'd > like to have fvwm just ignore any request from GNU Emacs to de-iconify > itself. Is this possible? There is the 'IgnoreRestack' style option, > but in experimentation this doesn't seem to stop GNU Emacs from > de-iconifying itself, although it may stop the raising if GNU Emacs is > already de-iconified. > > Is this an EWMH hint, so that I want EWMHIgnoreStateHints? I'm wary > of ignoring all EWMH (state) hints due to potential side effects. > > Thanks in advance for any advice. > > - cks > > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
