Re: Setting focus to newly shown window

[Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb gmx de>]

On 20.01.2016 08:55, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:10:09PM +0100, Johannes Bauer wrote:
> > I've done some GTK programming in the ancient past and am just now
> > starting again with GTK3, Glade and pygtk. Wow, the project has come a
> > long way. It's absolutely amazing and so much simpler than in the past.
> > I love it.
>
> (I think you mean PyGObject, since PyGTK doesn't support GTK+ 3.x.)

True!

> Isn't info_window.show() doing what you want?  Newly-opened windows
> appear on top and get keyboard focus.

Hm, they didn't in my example, even though I had newer shown it before.

> If the window was already visible, and you just want to bring it to
> front, try info_window.present().  The window manager (i.e. gnome-shell)
> may feel free to ignore your request, on the grounds of focus stealing
> prevention -- in that case you'll get a notification about the window
> wanting attention.

Works perfectly, thanks to you (and Phil and John) for the clarification.

Best regards,
Johannes