Jean Louis writes: > Did you try to invoke Emacs without having Emacs in front of you? Once > you try, come back and tell me how would you capture anything from X > selection into Emacs without having Emacs window in front of you. > > I do not know how. My thinking stops right there. > > I have four workspaces, Emacs is not on each of them. > > How do I invoke Emacs without having it in front of me with just 1 key > binding?
One solution is to let Emacs be your X window manager. I'm not saying it's "the solution" to what's being discussed in this thread (sorry for the noise), but in my case it is. With EXWM I don't need, for example, anything like org-protocol. Even if I want to copy/cut/paste something inside X, I have these three simultation keys defined in EXWM: ([?\C-y] . [?\C-v]) ([?\C-w] . [?\C-x]) ([?\M-w] . [?\C-c]) and I can use C-y, C-w or M-w in LibreOffice, Gimp or wherever. One more example. If I'm in the external browser I normally use when I'm not using eww (qutebrowser), I have a simple Org-capture template to copy a url and create an Org heading with the link. I just hit yy on qutebrowser and, without leaving there, call org-capture (C-c c). I have another template to download images with org-download; another to create a heading with the information extracted from google-scholar, etc. I mean that using EXWM these problems don't exist, because, one way or another, you're always in Emacs. Best regards, Juan Manuel
