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Interactively highlight which buffer is active by dimming the others.
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Buffer is dimmed very briefly after frame is focused (Gnome) #57

Closed WhatDothLife closed 2 years ago

WhatDothLife commented 2 years ago

I noticed that when I'm changing my focus to an Emacs frame, the current buffer is dimmed for a short time (looks like it's blinking). Is there any chance this can be fixed by using another hook?

gonewest818 commented 2 years ago

Hard to say what’s happening without debugging a reproducible case.

However - There is a configuration setting that controls how dimmer responds when emacs loses focus…some people prefer to leave the most recently active window highlighted, and I prefer if dimmer dims everything. Anyway, that’s a choice and if you disable that setting it might help in your case …

Doesn’t explain why the flicker is happening, of course, but would maybe reduce the annoyance.

On Oct 29, 2021, at 12:57 PM, Michael Wernthaler @.***> wrote:

 I noticed that when I'm changing my focus to an Emacs frame, the current buffer is dimmed for a short time (looks like it's blinking). Is there any chance this can be fixed by using another hook?

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WhatDothLife commented 2 years ago

Indeed, setting dimmer-watch-frame-focus-events to nil solved the issue. Unfortunately, it took me way too much time to figure out it has to be set before dimmer-mode is invoked for the first time. Otherwise, it has no effect for me.

Maybe, the documentation of the variable could be extended. So far, there's only this hint:

Restart Emacs after changing this configuration.

Thank you for your quick response (again!). I'm a huge fan of dimmer, it's one of my most valuable packages.

gonewest818 commented 2 years ago

Great, I'm glad the workaround is working out for you.

Appreciate the feedback on the docs, too! I'll make that clearer.

I'm curious to see a reproducible case -- if anyone out there happens to pinpoint a set of conditions when this happens, it would be good to know.

Thanks

WhatDothLife commented 2 years ago

I think it might actually be a Gnome problem. The Emacs frame briefly loses focus when the navigation window is launched and after it exits. Here is a recording:

dimmer

Of course, it wouldn't be surprising if it was due to a quirk of Emacs, but I don't know how to debug it....

gonewest818 commented 2 years ago

Yeah, it does look like the switcher is somehow causing that. Thanks for that video.

On Nov 20, 2021, at 11:34 AM, Michael Wernthaler @.***> wrote:

 I think it might actually be a Gnome problem. The Emacs frame briefly loses focus when the navigation window is launched and after it exits. Here is a recording:

Of course, it wouldn't be surprising if it was due to a quirk of Emacs, but I don't know how to debug it....

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gonewest818 commented 2 years ago

I pushed an update to the documentation.

I'm considering the rest of the issue a gnome bug and therefore "not a bug" based on the evidence above. Let me know if you think I should reconsider that. thanks-