[vox-tech] Setting foreground window from command line

[Jonathan Stickel]

Chris Jenks wrote:
>
>   Hello,
>
>   I'm looking for a way to cause a specific window to move to the 
> foreground when a shell script is run. My googling is returning very 
> little signal to noise! I'm running pretty much stock Gutsy ubuntu. 
> Any pointers?
>
>   Thanks,
>
>     Chris

Here is some c++ code that does it in a visualization application.  It 
has been a long time since I looked at the details, but this might start 
you looking in the right direction.  This commands are in standard X11 
headers/libraries I think.

  XRaiseWindow(window->GetDisplayId(), window->GetWindowId() );

Jonathan