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 -- _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
