Comment #24 on issue 200 by allber...@gmail.com: xmonad spins in a tight loop changing focus back and forth http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=200 No, it won't affect ediff, that's one of many frame-related bugs in emacs. Emacs likes to think it gets to decide things like focus (this hasn't been true or legal since X11R4), so when the window manager sets the focus emacs decides it wants another frame to have focus instead and moves it. Most window managers don't pay attention to emacs forcibly setting focus, xmonad is being strict about ICCCM/EWMH and switching focus back. It's the equivalent of Chrome and Firefox switching focus around, except they use EWMH to tell the window manager to do it instead of just slamming it themselves and if you hack EWMH to ignore the focus change message you can override it. (I have managed to provoke all kinds of weird behavior from emacs' frame support. Speedbar is another good way to do it; if you try to capture it in an IM layout, it will constantly escape the layout. I gave up, as the emacs folks don't appear to have any intention of following ICCCM or EWMH.) -- You received this message because this project is configured to send all issue notifications to this address. You may adjust your notification preferences at: https://code.google.com/hosting/settings