Re: Raising a GtkWindow

[Thomas Thurman <tthurman gnome org>]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:09:30PM +1300, Liam O'Boyle wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 19:25 +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 20:42 +1300, Liam O'Boyle wrote: 
> > > I'm wondering if there is a correct way to raise a GtkWindow to be on
> > > top of other windows. Under Gnome, with the default window manager,
> > 
> > Yes there is. Call gtk_window_present().
> > 
> > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.12/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-present
> Hi there,
> 
> Unfortunately gtk_window_present() just calls gdk_window_show on the
> widget->window... so, at least for me, it still isn't doing much to
> raise the window for me.  Thanks for the suggestion though - I hadn't
> seen that before.

There is some amount of consensus among window manager maintainers (not 
just Metacity people, and not even just under GNOME) that allowing this 
is a bad idea.  For this reason it is not possible, except in a few 
special cases: the request reaches the window manager but gets ignored.

I wrote a description of the problem here, with links to discussions 
elsewhere:

  http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2007/12/24/stacking/

peace

T

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