Alexander Kriegisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there some kind of quintessence or bottom line of this thread? Can I >simply make it work the way I like to? I.e. can I achieve the behaviour >that calling "scite myfile" from the shell will actually reliably >activate and front the already opened SciTE instance? Can I achive it >via configuration? Do I need a patch? If so, where can I find it? >
Summary: there will soon be a patch, that will fix some issues about bringing SciTE to the front, and I think Neil will patch the source. (If you're really unwilling to wait, send me a private email, and I'll give you what you need, but there are some issues right now). To answer your questions: it will not be possible to front SciTE using the command line. That's determined by the window-manager (I assume you're using Metacity, since you're using Gnome), which tries to avoid windows presenting themselves in front of what you're doing*. It will work however, if you open a file in SciTE from within Nautilus, and work the smart way: if you open the file and don't do anything, SciTE is fronted. if you open the file, and do something (say, you select another file) before SciTE is ready, it won't be fronted, but will flash in the taskbar. Obviously the other answers are: no (no configuration), no (no patch yet). If you want to activate SciTE from within a virtual terminal, take a look at wmctrl [1]. I don't know which distribution you're using, but it's probably in the repositories. You could then have a little script, something like: #!/bin/sh SciTE "$@" & wmctrl -a SciTE Just tested it, seems to work. I'm going to assume you know what to do with this shell script, if you don't, say so and I'll explain. Regards, Nicolas [1] http://www.sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/ * For those interested, here's what I wrote in an email on the thread Neil linked to: "As Neil mentionned in a previous email, we should be careful about [bringing SciTE to the front]. Activating (the word X uses for that, i.e. giving a window the focus and raising it above the others) can be really annoying for a user, for example if a window is suddenly activated while we were doing something else. To avoid that, we have to use timestamps. [...] The window manager will then decide whether to front the window or not, depending [on] whether the user activated another window since [the action causing activation, e.g. opening a file]. If [the window manager] doesn't activate the window, it might give an indication that the window asked to be fronted (e.g. in Gnome, using Metacity, the button will flash in the task bar)." In the case of calling SciTE from a shell, we are not given a timestamp, which means the window won't be fronted. See: http://mailman.lyra.org/pipermail/scite-interest/2007-July/009455.html http://mailman.lyra.org/pipermail/scite-interest/2007-July/009456.html _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list Scite-interest@lyra.org http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
