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30.0.50; Mailto URI handler emacsclient doesn't show unless there's a visible frame

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Message #36 received at 71579 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>
Cc: 71579 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#71579: 30.0.50; Mailto URI handler emacsclient doesn't show
 unless there's a visible frame
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 09:08:18 +0200

> From: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  71579 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 07:41:31 +0200
> 
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>
> >> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:14:11 +0200
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I'm not sure if this is worth a bug report but while testing I noticed
> >> that using the emacsclient mailto handler opens a buffer in any frame no
> >> matter if there is a visible frame or not on the current virtual
> >> desktop.
> >> 
> >> Is this a bug or intended? 
> >
> > I don't understand what you mean.  How can a buffer be shown in a
> > frame that is not visible?  And what do you mean by "any frame"?
> 
> By visible I mean that it is not present on the current virtual desktop.
> Lets say the user has a frame on desktop 1 but is on  desktop 2.
> Now they open a mailto link and the link will be opened in the frame on
> desktop one despite them being on desktop 2.
> 
> With in any frame I mean any frame without filtering out those which are
> currently not visible on the users screen.

I'm not familiar with the notion of "desktop" in the context of
emacsclient.  emacsclient either uses an existing frame or (if invoked
with -c, or if there's no existing frame) creates a new one.  is what
you see consistent with what I say?  Is what you see consistent with
what happens when you invoke emacsclient with a name of a file, not
mailto URI, and leave all the other command-line options of
emacsclient unaltered?  If there's a difference, please describe how
emacsclient behaves differently compared to the other use cases.

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