On Thursday 24 August 2006 12:32, Marco wrote: > Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Saturday 19 August 2006 11:59, Marco wrote: > >> Marco wrote: > >> > I have problems activating already running non-kde application e.g. by > >> > key shortcuts. For Thunderbird on taskbar icon is blinking. Evolution > >> > even starts a second instance. > >> > > >> > But what I want is to show the main window. How can I achieve this? > >> > >> Is it really so uncommon to run non-kde applications under kde? Or does > >> nobody use key shortcuts for them or any desktop automation? > >> > >> Or was something wrong with my question? > > > > It might not have been clear what the actual problem is or what you do to > > make it happen. > > I want to find a way to switch to the windows of a running non-kde > application - ie to display its window. The same thing that happens when I > click its entry in the task bar. But I need an automatizeable method - ie a > command I can put into the key shortcut or call from another program like > KBiff. I am afraid there is currently no solution that will work in all cases, since neither the task list nor KWin export the necessary internal functionality over DCOP. > > You have a keyboard shortcut associated with a program entry in the K > > menu, right? > > yes > > > And when you activate it a second time you get a behavior you do not > > expect? > > yes, it does not display its window but just make the entry in the taskbar > dark. It might be a matter of setting a different "Focus stealing prevention" value. KWin tries to keep new windows behind the currently active (focused) one, unless the new window is related to the active window (for example a dialog), in order to avoid that the user enters information into the wrong window, or triggers keybord shortcuts there. A program supporting single instance through multiple starts, such as Thunderbird in your case, might have optional commandline arguments to force a window raise. If an application does not support single instance behavior, in your case this seems to apply to Evolution, it will be started a second time. Of course the program could also have a commandline switch which is indented to just pass the parameters to an already running instance of itself. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx> Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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