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25.2; Why is emacsclient frame "invisible"?

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From: Live System User <nyc4bos <at> aol.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.2; Why is emacsclient frame "invisible"?
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 09:40:25 -0500

Hi,

        While having an Emacs daemon running, i created an Emacs client
        via "emacsclient -c file`.txt".  I then switched to a different
        (GTK3) workspace and from a terminal there I attempted to
        create another Emacs client via "emacsclient -c file2.txt".  I
        did not see a newly created Emacs client frame in this
        workspace.

        So the Emacs client frame is probably on the previous
        workspace?  I go to that workspace but it isn't there.  The
        terminal where I executed the "emacsclient command still has
        the "Waiting for Emacs..." message.  Using ALT-TAB (which
        shows running applications and allow you to select one) *shows*
        the name of the Emacs client frame, however, the icon/picture
        is blank in ALT-TAB and I'm unable to select it.
        Attempting to select it just chooses the Emacs client
        frame of file1.txt not file2.txt.  It's like file2.txt
        is a phantom.

        This is probably a window manager glitch that Emacs
        can't do alot about except maybe the following:

        1.  Provide a way for users to specify which
            workspaces to create Emacs client frames on
            and, optionally default to the "current" workspace

        2.  Optionally. switch to that workspace


        I'll keep the process around for a little while
        `in case any debugging info is useful.

        Thanks.
        



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Message #8 received at 30695 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Live System User <nyc4bos <at> aol.com>
Cc: 30695 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30695: 25.2; Why is emacsclient frame "invisible"?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 08:48:36 -0500

Live System User <nyc4bos <at> aol.com> writes:

>         While having an Emacs daemon running, i created an Emacs client
>         via "emacsclient -c file`.txt".  I then switched to a different
>         (GTK3) workspace and from a terminal there I attempted to
>         create another Emacs client via "emacsclient -c file2.txt".  I
>         did not see a newly created Emacs client frame in this
>         workspace.

Is Emacs burning CPU while this is happening?

Does this only happen when opening a frame through emacsclient?  E.g.,
if you evaluate

    (progn (sleep-for 3) (make-frame))

and then quickly switch to another workspace, do you see similar
behaviour?

>         This is probably a window manager glitch that Emacs
>         can't do alot about except maybe the following:
>
>         1.  Provide a way for users to specify which
>             workspaces to create Emacs client frames on
>             and, optionally default to the "current" workspace
>
>         2.  Optionally. switch to that workspace

I don't think Emacs can do either of these, since workspaces are a
window manager-specific concept.

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