GNU bug report logs - #49997
27.2; idle-time reset when switching desktop-page

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Peter Münster <pm <at> a16n.net>

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 08:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, moreinfo

Found in version 27.2

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #49 received at 49997 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 49997 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, pm <at> a16n.net
Subject: Re: bug#49997: 27.2; idle-time reset when switching desktop-page
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 19:12:55 +0200
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> And if it does present a problem, cannot the OP use
>> after-focus-change-function to restart the idleness?
>
> Or maybe configure the WM not to send focus-out events for a page
> switch?

Well, it does definitely lose focus when we switch to a different
desktop, so I think the events themselves are correct (more or less).

I guess the concept of "Emacs is idle" isn't well-defined.  I think a
natural interpretation of the it is "I haven't done anything in Emacs".
And giving focus to Emacs isn't "in Emacs", in a way.  So we could bar
FOCUS_IN/FOCUS_OUT from changing idleness in general.

On the other hand, getting/losing focus is a thing that happens to
Emacs, so it's not really "idle".

I dunno.  Perhaps we should just leave it as is.

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