[vox-tech] "bring to front" X-window command

[Jonathan Stickel]

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 02:06:24PM -0700, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 
>>Finally got around to trying this, and it does work directly in "simple" 
>>windows managers (tested in openbox).  However, it doesn't quite work in 
>>KDE.  Rather than the window coming to the top, the window's entry in 
>>the taskbar just flashes at me.
> 
> 
> KDE does have an option to 'reduce focus from being lost', e.g. by pop-ups,
> so the flashing is probably their way of dealing with it.
> 
> Try the above again, with that focus option turned off.
> 

Yep, you are right.  In KDE 3.3, the option is "Focus stealing 
prevention level: none|low|medium|high|extreme".  Setting it to "none" 
allows my code to bring the desired window to the top.

However, I would like to override this feature in my program so that the 
window rises to the top no matter what the WM/DE trys to do.  From what 
I understand, setting the "override-redirect" attribute of the window to 
"True" should do what I want.  Instead, nothing happens when 
XRaiseWindow is called, neither in KDE or Openbox.  Any ideas here?

If I can't override the WM, I'll have to put something in the help to 
tell users to turn off the appropriate "focus" setting.  Do other WM/DE 
have this option like KDE?  Does Gnome?

Thanks!
Jonathan