X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Original-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: cygwin@cygwin.com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 1B7A63858C83 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=inf.ed.ac.uk Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=inf.ed.ac.uk To: Subject: Re: emacs-everywhere References: <596abe60-2795-c7b5-1bc0-df9d359c6e53@cs.umass.edu> From: "Henry S. Thompson" Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 15:36:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Eliot Moss's message of "Tue\, 8 Mar 2022 08\:55\:53 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) XEmacs/21.5-b34 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at seine.is.ed.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_SHORT, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS, TXREP, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: cygwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie.com@cygwin.com Sender: "Cygwin" Eliot Moss writes: > ... > It does occur to me, however, that if I am willing to run > Thunderbird from WSL, this all might work more or less out of the > box. But the stumbling block at present is the lack of xdotool that > can be invoked by emacsclient to start an emacs-everywhere pop-up > window. Unless someone with deeper knowledge of emacs / > emacs-everywhere or of X innards can suggest another way to do that. Not sure if this is any help, but I gave up on xdotool some time ago, as bugs are not getting fixed and I don't have the X chops to fix them. Similar and in many ways easier to use is pyautogui: https://pypi.org/project/PyAutoGUI/ It has worked well for me in cases where I used to use xdotool. Your mileage may vary... ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple