Re: [gtk-list] Un-minimizing a window?

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico redhat com>]

>  I've got a menu item that displays a particular window. When that window
>  hasn't yet been shown, gtk_widget_show() does the right thing. When the
>  window has been shown but is buried by other windows, gdk_window_raise()
>  does what I want. But if the window has been minimized by the user,
>  neither of these calls have any effect. I can sort of hack around it
>  with
>  
>      if (GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE(window))
>          gtk_widget_hide(window);
>  
>      gtk_widget_show(window);
>  
>  but this is less than ideal: for example, it flickers if the window is
>  on screen, and it moves the window back to its default position (which I
>  could deal with separately, but never mind that).

If your widget is realized, you can simply do 

	gdk_window_show (widget->window);

This will map it if it is iconified or withdrawn and raise it if it
was already shown.

  Federico