Re: Bind <space> to builtin_raise in mouse.c

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:

> Hmm... It may not be what you wanted to say, but we can take that as an
> extra argument to remove the feature, i.e .there's another obstacle tha=
t
> makes it unreliable : the focus-stealing-prevention mechanism that is
> activated by default on several desktops.

Just saying the current implementation isn't super useful.  But a focus-s=
tealing-prevention is also problematic.

> That makes me think of a different approach to associate a console wind=
ow
> and a plot window : make the prompt and the window title change
> accordingly.
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> Advantage : both of them are really managed by gnuplot, so that is
> reliable and cross-platform.
> Drawback : not as straightforward,
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> For example, the first instance of gnuplot would have the prompt
> "gnuplot>", and the window would be entitled "gnuplot", a second instan=
ce
> could have the prompt "gnuplot(2)>", and the window would be entitled
> "gnuplot(2)", etc.
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> Many programs I know are able to recognize if an instance is already
> running. So I guess we could be able to do it too, and to use this
> information to change the prompt.
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> Is that satisfying ?

Right now in Gnome I see that if I have two versions of gnuplot and gnupl=
ot_x11, the windows created for the two different gnuplot_x11 are combine=
d in the same menu group; so yeah that could be useful.  (Not something I=
'm pining for, though.)

Dan