On 8 Nov 2015 6:24 pm, "martin rudalics" <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:
>
> >      (let ((cur (selected-frame)))
> >        (raise-frame other-frame)
> >        (select-frame cur))
> >
> > Result: Even though that snippet ends with `(select-frame cur)', focus
> > is left on `other-frame'.
>
> ‘raise-frame’ requires an interaction with the window manager.  If the
> latter decides that raising a minimized frame will give focus to that
> frame that's it.
>
> You might want to look into bug#745 where you can find many references
> to window manager behaviors and older discussions on emacs-devel.

Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for the reference.
I guess we can close this then.