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27.0.50; `select-frame-set-input-focus' moves mouse pointer outside of frame

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Message #13 received at 36165-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 36165-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36165: 27.0.50; `select-frame-set-input-focus' moves mouse
 pointer outside of frame
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:39:23 +0000

Thanks, it appears to work here.

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 8:17 AM martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> wrote:
>
>  > In emacs -Q, disable scroll-bar-mode and evaluate:
>  >
>  > (let ((mouse-autoselect-window t))
>  >    (select-frame-set-input-focus (window-frame)))
>  >
>  > The mouse pointer will now be to the right of the window frame; with
>  > normal window managers, this doesn't matter much, except that a "resize
>  > this window" cursor might be shown rather than the usual one, but with
>  > tiling window managers, the cursor position may correspond to another
>  > window, which is then raised and wrongly receives keyboard focus. This
>  > actually happened to me.
>  >
>  > The attached patch fixes things, by moving the mouse pointer to the last
>  > valid x position.
>
> Pushed to master.  Please have a look and close the bug in case I did
> things right.
>
> Thank your very much, martin

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