Re: Gtk::window.present() doesn't always present

[h hamberg zonnet nl]

Citeren Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>:

> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I tried to describe my problem as short as I could...
> >
> > I'm writing a gui for our orbital welding machine which my company is
> > building. Everything went really well but now I'm stuck.
> >
> > Our gui consists of several modular gtkmm programs communicating through
> > an ipc message queue. All programs start without showing any window. They
> > can send a message to each other to present themselves to the user when
> > necessary.
> >
> > The first time they present a window it works fine. But after they've
> > hide and later want to show themselves again the window doesn't popup.
> > Actually, they do popup but only after I click with the mouse, anywhere
> > on the screen.
> >
> > I've googled around and found a few hints, like the window manager only
> > wants to popup windows the user explicitly asked for with a mouse click,
> > to prevent stealing focus from other windows. Probably this is why there
> > exists a function present with time stamp...  I tried to kill the window
> > manager but this doesn't make any difference.
> >
> > If anybody could help me out, even with some hints to search for, I
> > would be very thankful.
>
> I guess you are using the metacity window manager, like most GNOME
> installations.
>
> I have CCed the metacity mailing list so they can give you some help with
> this.
>
>
> Murray Cumming
> murrayc murrayc com
> www.murrayc.com
> www.openismus.com

Yes, I did used Metacity but I also tried WindowMaker or without any 
window manager which didn't made any difference.

I'm sorry for all those copies of my mail, I thought my messages didn't 
arrive.. stupid me.

Harm Hamberg