Xorg problem: What happened to XRaiseWindow?

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 20 January 2006 14:57, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:24 +0100, Erwin Rol wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 07:14 -0500, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 07:08 -0500, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > When calling XRaiseWindow under Fedora, it does come to foreground
> > > > when covered by another window, hmmm?
> > >
> > > I meant to say: Does "NOT" come to the foreground.
> >
> > Isn't the raising of windows a task of the window manager, and not of
> > the program ?
>
> Yes, but the way you tell the window manager that you would like to
> raise the window is via XRaiseWindow, right?
>
> Now, notice if one were to access the covered window via the taskbar of
> KDE for example it does come to the foreground.
>
> So, my question is have the window managers decided to not honor the
> standard XRaiseWindow request?
>
> > In FC5 it seems the window manager does not "raise" windows over windows
> > that have the focus.
>
> Same happens in RedHat Enterprise Linux 4
>
> What is going on?

 It's called "focus stealing prevention", see e.g. 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2003-May/msg00013.html . A short 
description is that only the user (i.e. taskbar etc.) and the most recently 
activated application are allowed to raise or focus windows, requests from 
inactive applications are not honoured. As already said above, applications 
are usually not supposed to do that anyway.

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