Raising a GTK window that has been iconified

["Eric M. Monsler" <emonsler beamreachnetworks com>]

Hello all,

I have a GTK+ 1.2 app that I am maintaining.

When an operator presses certain buttons, we open new windows and 
display running information in them.  Currently, when an operator 
presses a button for a data display that is already open, nothing 
happens.  This is annoying when the window in question is iconified or 
hidden, because the operator has to then hunt through all their windows 
to find the correct one.  It would be much nicer if the window popped to 
the top when the button was pressed.

From 18-Oct-2001 there was the following message:


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"Freivald, Joseph AT., GOVMK" <jfreivald att com> writes:
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gdk_window_raise(gtk_widget_get_parent_window(GTK_WIDGET(GTK_BIN(w_ptr)->child)));

Yes, what's all that. ;-)

Just do this:
 gdk_window_show (GTK_WIDGET (w_ptr)->window);

Havoc

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When I tried to do exactly that, it worked fine, but the side effect was 
that the destroy [X] button in the window titlebar became insensitive. 
This is undesireable.

I also tried to use instead gdk_window_raise(with same args), but that 
only worked if the window was not iconified.  Worked fine if the window 
was hidden by other windows.

So, I have a few questions:

1) Is the behavior with gdk_window_show() not unusual, and I should 
simply connect to the destroy signal again?  Or somehow otherwise 
work-around it?

2) Is there something else I can do to de-iconify a window before 
_raise()'ing it?

3) Are either or both of these behaviors likely to be caused by my 
window manager, and if so, what settings/behaviors should I try to change?


TIA,

Eric M. Monsler